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VOL XXIV NO. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1994 


395 NINTH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103 



Surgeon general speaks out! 

Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders charms the audience just prior to her January 27 talk at 
SF Community College. For more on the always candid surgeon general, see stories on page 

21. (Photo: Rick Gerharter) 


LAVA Moves Inexorably Forward 


by Judi Parks 

Bay Area Career Women 
president Laurel Donoho has 
announced that tickets are 
now available for the upcom¬ 
ing “Lesbians of Achieve¬ 
ment, Vision, and Action” 
awards, which will be pre¬ 
sented at their second annual 
benefit dinner on Saturday, 


April 2. The prestigious event 
will be held at the Westin St. 
Francis Hotel at Union 
Square to honor seven les¬ 
bians who have, through their 
actions, achievement, or work, 
created lesbian visibility. 

One of the most visible les¬ 
bians of all, nationally known 
author, sex educator, and 


comedienne Joann Loulan 
will serve as mistress of cere¬ 
monies. Loulan, author of 
The Lesbian Erotic Dance: 
Butch, Femme and Other 
Rhythms; Lesbian Passion: 
Lo Femme and Other 
Rhythms; Lesbian Passion: 
Loving Ourselves and Each 
Other; Lesbian Sex; and Pe- 
(Continued or) page 11) 


A Real Philadelphia Story 


Gay Lawyer with AIDS seesJustice too Late 


by Wayne Hoffman 

Tom Hanks may have won 
a Golden Globe for his por¬ 
trayal of a lawyer with AIDS 
in Philadelphia, but the 
award that matters more 
went to Geoffrey Bowers in 
New York. Bowers recently 
won a record settlement 
against one of the country’s 
leading law firms, claiming 
the firm fired him because he 
had AIDS. 

The New York State Divi¬ 
sion of Human Rights last 
month awarded $500,000 in 
mental anguish damages, plus 
back pay, to be paid by Bow¬ 
ers’s former employer, the 
law firm of Btfker & McKen¬ 
zie. Bowers worked as an im¬ 
migration lawyer for the Man¬ 
hattan branch of the firm un¬ 
til 1986. At that time, Bowers 
developed visible Kaposi’s 
Sarcoma due to AIDS, and 
was dismissed despite praise¬ 
worthy job performance. 

Bowers testified that aside 
from causing obvious finan¬ 
cial straits, his dismissal had 
devastated him emotionally. 

“I was hurt, I was upset, I 
was angry,” he said. “In light 


of the fact that I was dealing 
with my AIDS and my Ka¬ 
posi’s Sarcoma, I merely felt 
as though they had taken the 
last thing in the world that 
meant anything to me.” 

Unfortunately, Bowers did 
not survive to see his victory. 
He died in 1987. The award 
will go to his mother, living 
in Massachusetts. 

Daniel Felber of Balsam & 
Felber was a long-time per¬ 
sonal friend of Bowers, and 
represented Bowers in the 
case. “I think the decision is 
wonderful,” Felber says. “I 
feel my client, and now his 
estate, is completely vindicat¬ 
ed and more importantly, Ge¬ 
offrey did not spend the last 
months of his life for nothing. 
He fought the good fight, and 
this is a validation of it.” 

The figure for damages 
seems low compared to more 
publicized cases, the fictional 
Philadelphia case included. 
But the Division of Human 
Rights is not authorized to 
grant punitive damages, 
which can add millions of dol¬ 
lars to court settlements. 

Balsam & Felber chose to 
prosecute the case through 


the Division rather than the 
courts, despite the much low¬ 
er potential award. Felber ex¬ 
plains that in 1986, the federal 
courts did not yet classify 
AIDS as a disability; that clas¬ 
sification came in 1990 with 
the Americans with Disabili¬ 
ties Act. State courts were an¬ 
other option that would have 
allowed higher damages, but 
their process is even slower 
than the Division of Human 
Rights, and Bowers was in 
extremely poor health. 

Bowers’s lawyers decided 
to forego the punitive dam¬ 
ages, in order to speed the 
hearings and allow their 
client to testify himself while 
he was still able. This choice 
turned out to be a wise one in 
retrospect; Bowers testified in 
July, 1987, and died eight 
weeks later. In a courtroom 
case, he likely would have 
died before testifying. 

Besides, the $500,000 in 
mental anguish damages is a 
record for the Division, no 
small prize. “It is the highest 
award for mental anguish and 
pain and suffering ever 
awarded by the State Divi¬ 
sion of Human Rights in its 
history, and that is very pleas¬ 
ing to us,” says Felber. “For 
the forum that we chose and 
for the reasons that we chose, 
we are very pleased with the 
result. In hindsight, had we 
gone to a different forum, we 
may not have won.” 

Obviously, not everyone is 
pleased with the outcome of 
(Continued on page 18) 


Inside 

Bartalk. 

. . . 44 Open Forum. 

... .6 

Calendar. 


10 

GLAAD . 

. 25 OutThere. 

.34 

Health & Community 

. . 24 People/Personals . 

.52 

Letters . 

... .7 Queer Watch. 

.26 

Mr. Marcus ....... 

. . . 48 Sports & Fitness . . . 

. . .42 

Obituaries. 

.22 Wayne Friday. 

... .9 


Th eBay Area Reporter Celebrates Black History Month 

'As One Black Gay Man../ 

by Tony Glover, The Brothers Network 

“And those who make out of the holocaust of their exis¬ 
tence, more than a self-made tomb, shall be known as sur¬ 
vivors.” 

— Author unknown 

“For years now we have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in 
the ear of every black person with piercing familiarity. Per¬ 
haps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts 
of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But... when you are forever fight¬ 
ing a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness ’ — then you will under¬ 
stand why we find it difficult to wait.” 

“I might not get there with you, but I want you to know 
tonight, that we as a people will get to the promised land.” 

“You are as good as anyone.” 

— Martin Luther King, Jr. 



As a black man, I 
no longer will wait 
for what should 
have been provided 
years ago. Years be¬ 
fore Craig died. 

Years before James 
died. Before Arielle, 

Aunt Jenny, and Un¬ 
cle Vincent died. 

Before mommy dies. 

From AIDS. 

As a gay man I 
must hope against 
hope that the “she- 
he” some of us call 
God will show us 
how those labeled 
sexual outcasts will 
be delivered to the 
promised land. 

As a black gay 
man, I find myself 
repeating Dr. King’s 
words every day: “I 

am as good as any- Tony Glover, director of the Brothers Net- 
one”... “I am as good work, an SF HIV/AIDS service agency, 
as anyone...” “1 
am...” “ As good...” “As good as I am.” 

Everyday I reaffirm my grandmother’s advice to me that I 
have a right to be here as I am. Grandma Pearline loves her 
black gay grandson. She wouldn’t trade me for the world. One 
day, to reaffirm her love for me, she told me, “Don’t listen to 
what the anti-gay people say, because Tony, we all got a right 
to be here.” 

Some days I think, all at once, of Craig, Arielle, James, Jen¬ 
ny, and Vincent. On these days, with ill-ease, I project the 
death of my mother and, in so doing, lose control of my emo¬ 
tions. 

I am overwhelmed, for I am convinced that their deaths 
were not meant to be. We should not, 14 years into this AIDS 
pandemic, find ourselves counting dead so many black souls. 
No one should turn away from this Godawful truth: for many 
— regardless of race, color or creed — AIDS will continue to be 
the genocide that did not have to be. 

But, the U.S. government predicts by the year 2000 it will 
be African-Americans who are the majority decimated by 
AIDS. So for today, I speak mostly of the souls of black folk. 

Webster’s dictionary defines genocide as “the deliberate and 
systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.” 

Ignorant to history, some people say black folk use the word 
“genocide” too loosely. If they only knew how our history is 
filled with massacres deliberately borne of systemic racism — 
massacres unrestricted by timelines. The slave trade and lynch- 
ings and black infant mortality define more precisely our mas¬ 
sacres. 

Spread throughout history, with its means changing with 
time, the goal of destroying a people can escape those who live 
only in their moment with no recollection of mine. However, 

I, as a black person, am deeply aware that oppressive racist 
systems and bigoted de-liberators seek to destroy, instead of 
build, black bodies, black spirits, black souls, and black minds. 

I, a black gay man, am deeply aware of heterosexist systems 
in all ethnic communities, including my own. I know black het¬ 
erosexists deliberate with ease homo-bi-trans-sexual destruction 
by a disease which to many — black, brown, red, yellow, or 
white — refuse to claim as their own. 

I will speak of the genocide. I name it without hesitation. I 
will call out the white racist and heterosexists (of all colors, 
races, and creeds) destined to be recorded by time as destroy¬ 
ing— with deliberate speed, deafening silence and debilitating 
inaction on AIDS — the lives of black gay/bi/trans-sexual men. 

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(Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland) 


Merchants, Cops, Others, 

Meet in Wake of Castro Homicide 


by Dennis Conkin 

Merchants and other mem¬ 
bers of local gay and neigh¬ 
borhood business groups met 
last week, in the wake of the 
murder of a Castro area store 
clerk, to talk about crime in 
the Castro District. 

The meetings followed the 
Wednesday, January 26 murder 
of Steve Oh, 27, a clerk at 
KD’s Grog and Grocery on 
the corner of 17th and Castro 
streets. Oh was shot several 
times with a large caliber 
weapon during an armed rob¬ 
bery at the store, according to 
San Francisco Police Depart¬ 
ment homicide inspectors. 

Oh is survived by his wife 
and daughter. 

Crime in the Castro is not 
increasing, says officer Ray 
Benson, a Mission station cop, 
but is becoming increasingly 
violent. 

“We see the same num¬ 
bers, but it’s becoming more 
violent,” Benson told the Bay 
Area Reporter. “These are 
desperate times for desperate 
people. Our folks need to be 
really aware when they are 
on the street and pay atten¬ 
tion to what’s going on. 

In January, Mission Station 
responded to at least 20 vio¬ 


lent crimes, mostly strong 
arm robberies and assaults 
with deadly weapons, in the 
Castro neighborhood. 

But merchants also con¬ 
tend daily with shoplifters 
and street drunks, according 
to Les Hennessy of Hen- 
nessy’s Liquors, a member of 
Merchants of Upper Market. 

Hennessy and other mem¬ 
bers of the group met with 
Mission Station Captain 
Joaquin Santos and Benson 
the day after Oh was shot, to 
discuss the group’s concern 
over crime problems, includ¬ 
ing increased uniformed beat 
patrols by police and the 
problems of street drunks. 
Police also gave merchants 
tips about crime prevention 
in their stores, including in¬ 
formation about silent elec¬ 
tronic “panic buttons” that 
summon police to a robbery 
in progress. 

Santos and MOM agreed 
to work together on common 
crime concerns, including 
crime prevention education 
and better enforcement of 
laws that outlaw liquor stores 
from selling alcohol to al¬ 
ready intoxicated customers. 

Although the Castro area 
has one beat officer assigned 
to walk the district, and po¬ 


lice patrol cars are assigned to 
the area, it is unlikely that 
there will be an increase in 
regular police presence in the 
area because of serious under¬ 
staffing in the department. 
According to the Police Offi¬ 
cer’s Association, the under¬ 
staffing continues, despite last 
year’s passage of Proposition 
172 that approved an addi¬ 
tional $44 million in state 
funds that were re-allocated to 
non-public safety funds. 

Although a new police 
academy class is expected to 
place an estimated 40 new of¬ 
ficers on the street in the next 
year, 80 officers are expected 
to retire — and staffing levels 
will remain below a ten-year- 
old federally mandated re¬ 
quirement that the depart¬ 
ment have 1,971 officers. 

Merchants and business 
owners’ concerns were also 
evident at a meeting of Castro 
area merchants on February 
2. That meeting included rep¬ 
resentatives from In-Jean-ious, 
Herth Realty, New Buffalo 
Whole Foods, and the Golden 
Gate Business Association. 

The group plans to net¬ 
work with MOM and meet 
with Supervisors Susan Leal 
and Carole Migden about 
their concerns. ▼ 


Blue Eyed Bandit Update: 

D.A.'s Office Says Lack of Evidence Prompted Buffleb’s Release 


by Dennis Conkin 

Felony charges against Ste¬ 
fan Buffleb, the so-called 
“Blue Eyed Bandit,” were 
dropped “because of a lack of 
evidence,” according to a 
spokesperson for the San 
Francisco District Attorney. 

Buffleb, who has been ac¬ 
cused of theft by several gay 
men who met him in Castro 
Street gay bars, was arrested 
in the Castro on felony 
charges of burglary, credit 
card forgery, and possession 
of stolen property on Friday, 
January 14. 

Mission Station police also 
charged the German national 
with misdemeanor assault on 
a police officer and resisting 
arrest. 

The felony charges against 
Buffleb were dismissed be¬ 
cause the amount that Buffleb 
allegedly charged on a stolen 
credit card was “significantly 
less” than the $400 required 
to make the crime a felony. 

Buffleb was cited on the 


misdemeanor charges, includ¬ 
ing possession of a stolen 
credit card, and is scheduled 
to appear in Municipal Court 
to answer to the charges and 
to have a trial date set. 

According to alleged vic¬ 
tims of Buffleb, after ingrati¬ 
ating himself with his victims 
by telling him that he was a 
German tourist who was 
down on his luck and needed 
a place to stay, Buffleb would 
allegedly come home with 
them and steal their property. 

One gay man allegedly lost 
$200 in stolen checks to Buf¬ 
fleb, plus an undetermined 
amount of jewelry and other 
items. 

Numerous victims have 
stepped forward to complain 
about Buffleb’s alleged theft 
to the Bay Area Reporter - 
and make a flurry of com¬ 
plaints to the police inspector 
handling the misdemeanor 
charges against the tourist. 

One B.A.R. reader said he 
met Buffleb on a flight to San 
Francisco from Paris last 


September and that Buffleb 
later called him with a story 
that he was beaten up on 
Market Street and needed a 
place to stay. The reader let 
Buffleb stay with him for sev¬ 
eral days but asked him to 
leave a short time later after 
he began to believe Buffleb’s 
hard luck story was a con and 
that he was possibly being set 
up. 

SFPD Fraud Inspector 
Phil Tummarello requested 
that Buffleb’s alleged victims 
file a report with their local 
district police stations and not 
contact him directly — because 
he is only handling the 
charges against Buffleb 
brought by one victim. 

Although Buffleb is re¬ 
quired to appear on the 
charges, and may do jail time 
if he is convicted, it is unlike¬ 
ly that he will be deported 
from the country on a misde¬ 
meanor by the Immigration 
and Naturalization Service, 
because the charges are not 
felony charges. ▼ 


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schools will meet with mem¬ 
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Recreation and Information 
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sponsored by the School Dis¬ 
trict’s Gay and Lesbian Sup¬ 
port Services For Youth. The 
party is scheduled for this 
Friday, February 4, according 
to Crystal Jang, a staffer of 
the school program. 

“Basically what we’re try¬ 
ing to do is set up a time and 
create a place where they can 
come together and meet other 
kids who don’t access support 
service programs,” Jang told 
the Bay Area Reporter. 

“Many of the kids in 
school don’t feel safe enough 
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gay or bisexual and don’t 
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Jang, an out lesbian teach¬ 
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ago. I was born and raised 
and educated in San Francis- 


Clear as crystal: Crystal Jang of Support Services for Gay and 
Lesbian Youth. 

(Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland) 


co and I never thought a pro¬ 
gram like this would happen.” 

“An issue of visibility" 

According to Jang, her in¬ 
volvement is an opportunity 
to be a role model to lesbian 
and gay youth and expand 
the diversity and visibility of 
lesbians and gays of color. 

“It’s an issue of visibility 
for me. I’m an Asian lesbian 
and it’s really important that 
kids of color have someone to 
identify with. I make myself 
accessible,” she said. 

The program was recently 
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classroom by a teacher, after 
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“We also do in-service edu¬ 
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The program also works 
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“We do a wide range of 
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Community News 


Rocky Mountain School Seeks 
Gay and Lesbian Parents of Tots 



Vise squad: A parent shows two children how to use a ham¬ 
mer and a vise at the Rocky Mountain Participation Nursery. 

(Photo: Rick Gerharter) 


by Dennis Conkin 

Gay lesbian parents of 
children between the ages of 
two and a half to almost six 
years old, who are interested in 
joining a cooperative nursery, 
are now being sought by 
Rocky Mountain Participation 
Nursery at 15th and Beaver 
Streets in the Castro District. 

The parents’ cooperative, 
open weekdays mornings 
from September through 
May, is licensed by the state 
Department of Social Ser¬ 
vices for as many as 20 fami¬ 
lies. 

Because the school is a pro¬ 
ject of City College of San 
Francisco’s Child Develop¬ 
ment and Family Studies Pro¬ 
ject, the program’s students 
aren’t the children — rather, 
they are the parents who are 
enrolled in CCSF’s non-credit 
program. 

The nursery is directed by 
a parent-educator assigned to 
the program full-time. The di¬ 
rector, Effie Kuriloff, an early 
childhood education specialist 
and mother of three with a 
Master’s from New York’s 
prestigious Bank Street Col¬ 
lege of Education, has been 
with the program since 1965. 

The school, which began 
in 1948 in Potrero Hill, 
moved to its current site at 
the Peixoto Clubhouse in 
1977 after a period at the Eu¬ 
reka Valley Recreation Cen¬ 
ter. 

“We’re inviting parents 
who want to learn about par¬ 
enting and children and about 
themselves,” Kuriloff told the 
Bay Area Reporter. 

The school has had lesbian 
and gay parents as members 
before — including a gay male 
couple that helped the school 
get a grant from one of the cou- 
ple’s employers for the 
program. 

Parents who are involved 
with Rocky Mountain spend 


five hours a week at school 
with the children and also 
meet once a week in an “el¬ 
der’s circle” to talk amongst 
themselves, Kuriloff says. 

Parents learn a great deal, 
too — about child develop¬ 
ment and about themselves as 
individuals as well as learning 
parenting skills and having 
the opportunity to relate to 
other parents, said Trudy Li¬ 
onel, who has a daughter in 
the program. 

“The people are wonderful" 

“All the parents want the 
best for their children. It’s a 
small school and the people 
are wonderful,” Lionel said. 

Rocky Mountain’s empha¬ 
sis is on developing a child’s 
age and developmentally ap¬ 
propriate intellectual, physi¬ 
cal, and emotional and social 
skills in the real world, 
Kuriloff said'. 

Children attending the pro¬ 
gram participate in a variety 
of daily group and individual 
activities: their projects run 
the gamut from field trips to 
painting, reading groups, 
games and other activities — 
such as wreath making, Play- 
Doh pounding, and carpentry 


projects, often based on par¬ 
ent interests or skills. In the 
past, students have also 
helped to make a Names Pro¬ 
ject quilt section in memory 
of one of the kid’s fathers 
who died of AIDS. 

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Santa Clara Boy Scouts Promise 
United Way Not To Discriminate 


But Experts Think That's a Load of Crap 


by Lyn Duff 

The Santa Clara chapter of 
the Boy Scouts of America has 
signed an agreement with 
United Way of Santa Clara, 
promising not to discriminate 
against gay scouts and adult 
volunteers. 

The agreement follows a 
military-style “don’t ask, don’t 
tell” policy. If a scout acknowl¬ 
edges his homosexuality that 
is considered “conduct” and is 
not protected under this new 
agreement. The agreement 
only states that the Boy Scouts 
will not violate civil rights un¬ 
der the constitution. However, 
the BSA has claimed in a re¬ 
cent lawsuit initiated by Tim 
Curran, a gay former scout, 
that the group is immune 
from the federal civil rights 
bill because its express pur¬ 
pose is to be anti-gay. 

Wigsy Siverston of Bay 
Area Municipal Election Com¬ 
mittee recently met with Unit¬ 
ed Way to express her con¬ 
cerns regarding the agree¬ 


ment. “The United Way has 
been hoodwinked into believ¬ 
ing what the BSA is saying, 
and United Way is caught in 
an untenable bind because 



donors are saying if you don’t 
give to the scouts, we won’t 
give to you.’ The bottom line 
is that our issues don’t count. 
If this was about blacks or 
Jews, we wouldn’t be here.” 

A few weeks before it was 
discovered that an agreement 
between Santa Clara United 
Way and the BSA was being 
negotiated, it also came to 
light that Santa Cruz Boy 


Scouts had approached United 
Way with a similar proposal. 
Feeling that it had a break¬ 
through, Santa Cruz United 
Way contacted Ken McPher¬ 
son of Forgotten Scouts, an or¬ 
ganization of gay former boy 
scouts. They were not expect¬ 
ing his response to it. 

“Both agreements were 
completely fraudulent,” he 
told the Bay Area Reporter. 
“The BSA knew when it 
signed them that it wouldn’t 
actually follow the agree¬ 
ment.” After speaking to 
McPherson, the United Way 
of Santa Cruz confronted the 
Boy Scouts, which immediate¬ 
ly withdrew its request for 
funding. 

Siverston sees the recent 
events as a step forward, not 
because she believes the 
scouts are going to stop dis¬ 
criminating against gays, but 
because “we were told if it 
was shown that the BSA dis¬ 
criminates that they could be 
defunded, and that’s definitely 
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How Much Does 
Nordstrom's Hate 


by Dennis Conkin 

Nordstrom’s department 
store said “Happy New Year” 
to a make-up artist who made 
$200,000 in cosmetics sales at 
the store last year by firing 
her, apparently because she 
was spending too much time 
making up men, including 
well known performance 
artists and female imperson¬ 
ators. 

Juliet White, who holds a 
bachelor’s degree from an es¬ 
teemed local art school, al¬ 
leges to the Bay Area Re¬ 
porter that she was in the 
middle of assisting a male 
make-up client at the counter 
on New Year’s Eve when she 
received a call to report to 
her manager’s office. After 
she had finished serving the 
customer, she reported to the 
office, where she says she was 
told she was being terminated 
because of two customers’ 
complaints. White says she 
was told both complaints 
came from women, one of 
whom complained that White 
was busy selling merchandise 
to a man and hadn’t assisted 
her. 

Although White remem¬ 
bers the customer, she said 
that no Nordstrom’s supervi¬ 
sor or manager had ever 
bothered to discuss the inci¬ 
dent with her. 

“There were three people 
ahead of her. No one came to 
me and told me about the 
complaint,” White told the 
Bay Area Reporter. 

A Nordstrom’s spokesper¬ 
son said that White’s dis¬ 
missal had nothing to do with 
her allegations. 

Although Kjorina Boyd, a 
Nordstrom’s spokesperson, 

said “it would be unfair to 
discuss any employee’s reason 
for leaving Nordstrom’s,” she 
did tell the Bay Area Re¬ 
porter that customer com¬ 
plaints has “nothing to do” 
with White’s firing. 

Boyd also said that make¬ 
overs and cosmetic demon¬ 
stration were provided free to 
men and women customers 
alike, and that Nordstrom’s 
valued every customer “in¬ 
cluding members of the gay 
community.” 

Uncustomary customers? 

Among White’s customers 
are local performance artists 
and impersonators such as 
Madeline, Jade, and Pussy 
Tourette, as well as actors 
and others entertainers. 

“I did a lot of the club kids. 


They’d all come on Saturday 
and they all wanted me to 
help them. Maybe they 
thought I was being too 
friendly, but they were cus¬ 
tomers,” White said. 

White said that she was ter¬ 
minated because the store 
didn’t like her assisting cutting 
edge performance artists with 
cosmetic merchandise. 

“It was definitely homo- 
phobic. They just don’t under¬ 
stand creative people. 

“I just don’t know what 
else to say,” White told the 
B.A.R. “ I’d forgotten what 
it’s like to be in a suburban 
store. I’m an artist and I’m 
used to being around creative 
people, “ she said. 

According to White, Nord¬ 
strom’s manager are recruited 
from within the chain; many 
are from outside San Francis¬ 
co and do not understand or 
relate well to gays — especial¬ 
ly those who are on the cut¬ 
ting edge of contemporary ur¬ 
ban culture. 

“They don’t really under¬ 
stand the gay community, but 
that community is our Holly¬ 
wood,” White said. 

White, who has a B.EA. 
from the California College of 
Arts and Crafts, has contacted 
an attorney about the termi¬ 
nation and has also filed for 
unemployment. 

Ironically, the firm that 
makes the popular cosmetic is 
MakeUp Art Company, a 
Toronto-based enterprise 
started by two gay lovers who 
used to use drag queens in 
their fashion shows, according 
to White. 

White was one month 
away from receiving an in¬ 
store award for selling almost 
$210,000 of the firm’s prod¬ 
ucts when she was told she 
was fired. 

The company’s popular 
products including color pots, 
foundation, and other items, 
are only available at Nord¬ 
strom’s, locally. 

Prior homophobia? 

White’s charges of homo¬ 
phobia are the latest to hit the 
retail outlet. 

Last year several gay man, 
including a parishioner at 
Trinity Episcopal Church, 
claimed that they were unfair¬ 
ly accused of sexual solicita¬ 
tion in the Nordstrom’s pub¬ 
lic restroom by undercover 
security personnel for the 
chain. 

The Trinity parishioner de¬ 
nied the charges but the store 
failed to respond to a request 
of Father Robert Cromey, 
rector of the church, to meet 


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Editorial 


Justice Forever/Justice For Evers 

It seems only fitting that the trial that may finally bring 
justice to bear on the killer of the great African-American civil 
rights worker Medgar Evers kicks off in February, Black His¬ 
tory Month. In fact, too many people don’t remember Evers, 
or his tireless crusade to bring equality to all: that’s why Amer¬ 
ica needs a Black History Month. We could also use, obviously, 
a gay history month to let people know where we’ve been and 
where we are. 

The Evers case, for those who don’t know, is almost 30 
years old now. Evers was shot dead in his driveway in 1965 
with a gun belonging to an avowed white supremacist named 
Byron De La Beckwith, who claimed at the time the gun had 
been stolen and that he was not the murderer. De La Beckwith 
was apparently more forthcoming with other people he con¬ 
sidered compatriots: at least two have now testified he bragged 
about committing the crime. 

This is De La Beckwith’s third trial for Evers’s murder; the 
first two juries were all white, all male, and all too eager to tac¬ 
itly support his actions by holding out for mistrials. (There is 
some evidence of jury tampering in the second trial, and there 
may be irregularities in the first, as well.) Now, prosecutors 
hope, there may be a chance to put De La Beckwith behind 
bars and provide some small measure of comfort to Evers’s 
widow and the children who heard the gunshot and ran out to 
find their father — or, more specifically, a dead body that used 
to be their father. A guilty verdict will not bring him back to 
them, but it will ameliorate a situation that has been without 
a bright side for 29 years. 

We mention this because when the latest trial opened, a 
prosecutor told CNN that “the eyes of the world are upon Mis¬ 
sissippi.” We hope so. And we hope that the world focuses ex¬ 
actly 100 miles away from the courthouse where the trial is 
held, to see what’s happening in Ovett. 

That is, of course, where Sister Spirit is located, the camp 
run by two lesbians who moved to the rural area to be isolated 
from city strife and bask in nature. Instead, they have been 
hounded by over 400 petty De La Beckwiths-in-training. For 
an update on the case, see Marghe Covino’s stories on pages 
14 and 15. 

As Covino points out, the Klan Act of 1875 seems to address 
some of the problems we in the lesbian and gay community 
are now facing at the hands of narrow-minded bigots. Perhaps 
it is time for the groups that say they are working on securing 
our rights to stop reinventing the wheel and use the statutes 
already on the books, instead of waiting for our obviously sex¬ 
ually frustrated lawmakers to pass a bill that will do any good. 

We hope they are taking note. 


Mississippi God Damage 

Returning to De La Beckwith for a moment, he reportedly 
made a comment that he would do anything necessary “for a 
white Christian nation.” We don’t doubt that he said that, any 
more than we doubt he and Jesus Christ would despise each 
other if they ever met. 

We also wonder what the Ovett townsfolk would say if that 
carpenter and his dozen male compatriots (plus the occasional 
visiting whore, etc.) showed up to start a commune. Undoubt¬ 
edly the town would be in the same kind of uproar it is now 
experiencing over the Sister Spirit women. 

Probably, we think, the Ovettans would kill Jesus. In his 
own name, of course. 

Lots and lots of people have been killed in the name of 
God, despite His own pronouncement to judge not. We hope 
nobody at Sister Spirit will fall into that sad category. And we 
pray that the United States government is on the ball, watch¬ 
ing for further signs of trouble. 

We wish everyone at Sister Spirit the best, and hope for all 
concerned that the eyes of the world remain on Mississippi for 
a while. 


A Final Wish 

And to everyone everywhere, including Byron De La Beck¬ 
with: have a thoughtful, informed, and humanitarian Black His¬ 
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Guest Opinion 


Goodbye Les, from a Navy NC0 


by Christopher A. Plount 

Petty Officer Second Class, U.S. Navy 

Farewell, Secretary of Defense Les Asp in, 
it’s been an eventful year. Thanks for the hours 
of overtime you put in on vacation at taxpay¬ 
ers’ expense in Italy, and for supporting the air¬ 
line industry by flying commercial when you 
took that vacation to the Bahamas. I’m sure 
American Airlines enjoyed having you aboard, 
and gave you first class treatment after you 
crossed that darn picket line to make the gate. 

We know you’d like to share the credit with 
the President, but we can’t forget your office 
writes policy for the DoD: the President’s sig¬ 
nature only puts it into effect. 

Soldiers in Somalia are thankful to you for 
giving them a chance to test out their weapons 
in a combat scenario, watch their friends get 
blown away and captured by hostile forces, all 
courtesy of your neglect to provide the addi¬ 
tional armor they desperately needed. Does the 
word “culpability” mean anything to you, sir? 

And let’s not forget the most unusual gift: a 
new policy on homosexual behavior for our na¬ 
tion’s warriors. 

Thanks to your efforts, gay servicemembers 
can serve as long as they don’t make anyone 
too uncomfortable and “don’t engage in or 
have the propensity to engage in homosexual 
acts.” As a product of a Texas education, I 
might not see all the ramifications of this state¬ 
ment, but it seems illegal to place those restric¬ 
tions on homosexuals but not heterosexuals. 
Saying “servicemembers are not allowed to en¬ 
gage in or have the propensity to engage in 
any sexual act” seems much more equitable, 
and should prevent all those nasty discrimina¬ 
tion cases heading your way. 

Understandably, the majority of gay and les¬ 
bian servicemembers are discreet in their rela¬ 
tionships and separate their professional and 
personal lives. I do wonder what constitutes a 
“reasonable person.” Are “reasonable” people 
exclusively heterosexual? Is the word of an ac¬ 


cusing officer considered more “reasonable” 
than that of a defensive enlisted man? 

Mr. Aspin, as you are aware, when a person 
is accused of a crime in this great land of ours, 
the burden of proof lies with the state. Bearing 
this in mind I hope you can understand how 
deeply concerned I was to hear a pentagon 
spokesperson state, “If it becomes clear that 
they are homosexual, if they state their homo¬ 
sexuality, they have the opportunity to show 
that they do not engage in acts.” In essence, the 
servicemember is considered guilty, and must 
prove himself innocent and dispel the charges 
leveled against him. A gay male must show 
that he has not had sex with other men, a les¬ 
bian with women. How this can be presented 
is beyond me. 

Now it’s time for you to ride into the sunset 
— with almost certain book deals and a lecture 
series in tow. Your tenure at the Pentagon 
might have been short, sir, but the nation will 
always remember the, shall we say, interesting 
state of affairs you left at the DoD. 

Naturally, as with all great leaders, there is 
an opportunity of you to leave a parting quote 
for which you will always be remembered. My 
personal favorite so far is, “The important 
thing is that an acrimonious fight in Congress 
was avoided. The Defense Authorization bill 
was passed and the White House was permit¬ 
ted to preserve its political capital for other 
fights.” In other words, “It’s a damn good thing 
that we got our money and thank God we 
didn’t waste any more of our President’s ten¬ 
uous credibility with the military and Congress 
on an issue I don’t care about in the first 
place.” Very memorable. 

It is said that a President is only as good as 
his advisors. Bearing this — and your quote— i n 
mind, I now understand why it took this ad¬ 
ministration nine months to get off the starting 
block. In short, Mr. Aspin, you have left quite 
a mess for prospective SecDef Perry. But leav¬ 
ing messes behind is something you seem to 
excel at — just ask my shipmates in Somalia.^ 


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Letters 


Gay Youth Rights 

In response to your editorial remark that Catholic 
priests who join NAMBLA should “put their money 
where their mouths are,” I take this to imply that you 
feel there is some natural affinity between the stated 
positions of the Catholic Church and those of 
NAMBLA. I find this comparison ironic, since the 
Catholic Church embodies exactly those authoritarian 
elements of American culture against which 
NAMBLA has struggled for 15 years and represents 
a near-perfect contrast for NAMBLA’s own egalitarian 
philosophy. 

The treatment of Catholics by the Church is direct¬ 
ly analagous to the treatment of young people by our 
legal system: “we’ll tell you when you’re being abus¬ 
ed ... questioning our authority is a sin... we’ll protect 
you from one authority figure by putting you under 
the control of yet another one ...” 

It is precisely this paternalistic, inherently abusive 
attitude which NAMBLA seeks to change. The group 
has called for the grantingof full legal rights for young 
people so that they can press charges and file suits for 
themselves, and for alternative housing and economic 
support so that they can escape the abuse of family 
members without traumatic court proceedings. Other 
demands include greater access for young people to 
educational resources, including control over cur¬ 
riculum — removing the parental “right” of depriv¬ 
ing young people of sex education and gay-positive 
curriculum — and full access to information and 
resources for family planning and STD prevention. 
Such measures would empower young people to de¬ 
fend their own interests and ensure that their voices 
are heard. 

I am also puzzled by your inability to print anything 
other than innuendo about NAMBLA or to publish 
anything of substance about the issues the group was 
formed to address. NAMBLA is one of the oldest gay 
rights groups currently operating, and was founded 
in response to an explicitly anti-gay witch hunt against 
a group of men and mostly teenaged boys who refused 
to file complaints against their lovers and resented the 
destructive intrusion of homophobic police and media 
into their lives. 

This country has serious problems with 
homophobia and abuse of young people by parents 
and by insitutions both secular and religious. Gay 
youth suffer disproportionately from both of these op¬ 
pressions. 

David Miller 
San Francisco 


Exercise More Caution 

I am writing to respond to Joseph Kramer’s letter 
in the Jan. 27 issue of the B.A.R. In this letter, Mr. 
Kramer criticizes the advertisement in your paper by 
American Voicemail, Inc., and writes that he has spent 
the last 10 years of his professional life trying to “lower 
the amount of fear among men.” As the Gay Men’s 
Domestic Violence Project Coordinator here at CUAV, 
I have spent the last three years urging gay and bisex¬ 
ual men to exercise more caution in their approach 
to dating and sexual situations. 

It can actually be quite dangerous to be alone with 
someone you don’t know very well. Opening your 
home, getting into a car or having sex in a public place 
with a complete stranger can make you incredibly 
vulnerable, even if he “looks clean-cut” and seems all- 
around perfect. It seems reasonable, not paranoid, to 
give a stranger (even if you want to date or have sex 
with him, he’s still a stranger) a voice mail instead of 
a home telephone number. 

I have assisted literally hundreds of men who have 
been date raped, assaulted, drugged, robbed and 
otherwise abused by men whom they believed they 
could trust. Most of them never imagined that this 
could happen to them. Unfortunately, gay and bisex¬ 
ual men are no more immune from date assault than 
are women. 

It is not CUAV’s mission to promote fear, fear of in¬ 
timacy, paranoia or anti-sex attitudes. It is our mission 
to provide accurate information so that people can 
make the best possible choices concerning their per¬ 
sonal safety. 

Finally, violence is always the responsibility of the 
perpetrator and “bad judgement” never excuses or 
justifies violence. If you are victimized by a date or 
partner, call our CrisisLine at 333-HELP for support 
and information about our counseling and advocacy 
services. 

Greg Merrill, Gay Men's Violence 
Project Coordinator, C.U.A.V. 

San Francisco 


E-Mail Enthusiasm 

I have just finished reading David Batterson’s arti¬ 
cle about Millenium Online in the Bay Area Reporter 
and I enjoyed it very much. 

I saw MO’s inside front-cover ad in Ten Percent and 
ordered the disk but I decided not to sign on (the in¬ 
terface seemed kind of primitive and the sign-on 
seemed pretty complicated, a bad omen for me), but 
Batterson’s article has persuaded me to give the ser¬ 
vice another try. 

Bryce Hardy 
brycehardy@aol.com 


Attitude = Death 

The following letter was sent to Pat 
Christen, Executive Director, San Francisco 
AIDS Foundation: 

Please remove my name from your contributors list. 
I cannot justify my continuing support of an organiza¬ 
tion which contributes to the invisibility of older gay 
men. Your latest barrage of bus posters depicting yet 
another wreathed Adonis confirmed my anger. Once 
again, we are invalidated. 

In your perverse way, you actually contribute to an 
attitude that leads older gay men to have unsafe sex. 
From your years of poster boys, it is safe to surmise 
that men over 40 couldn’t be having sex or we are all 
dead. Surprise! 

Perhaps your campaign committee needs to do a lit¬ 
tle soul-searching regarding its ageist mentality. Or 
would they prefer we all die off so as not to remind 
them that they too will soon be old? It must terrify 
some of the young men around town to try visualiz¬ 
ing old sex. 

Please don’t tell me you are working on the pro¬ 
blem. You have had 10 years to work on it and you have 
consciously chosen not to. There is lots of anecdotal 
information which should have informed you that gay 
men of all ages are having unsafe sex for all variety 
of reasons. If you’re young, it’s because you’re immor¬ 
tal; if you’re old, what is there to look forward to but 
more old? 

The queer world has intensified what is already an 
endemic cultural disregard for allowing older people 
to have whole lives which includes sex. As a sub¬ 
culture, we bray on about every perceived affront to 
our personal and social freedoms, yet, blithely per¬ 
form emotional assassination every day against 
ourselves. 

It is not only silence that equals death; attitude 
equals death ... acknowledgement equals life. 

Philip Rossetti 
San Francisco 


Bath House vs. Sex Club 

The following letter was sent to Dr. Sandra 
Hernandez, Dept, of Public Health, 101 
Grove St., Room 308, San Francisco, CA 
94102: 

As a gay man living in San Francisco, I love the 
freedoms here that so much of the rest of the U.S. 
deprives its gay and lesbian sons and daughters. One 
of those freedoms is my choice to visit a sex club. 
Granted, I have been to sex clubs that have been very 
dirty and disgusting (I have refused to visit these) and 
I have occasionally seen unprotected oral sex between 
consenting adults. 1 have never seen unprotected anal 
sex but this is not to say it does not exist. 

If we start closing sex clubs because “it contributes 
to the spread of the AIDS virus,” then closing bars, 
dance clubs, restaurants, Bingo halls, etc. that serve 
liquor and beer cannot be far behind. These also con¬ 
tribute to one’s way of thinking as reported by top 
medical authorities. 

If one is closing the sex clubs because of un¬ 
cleanliness, then it is time to think about reopening 
bathhouses where the lighting is better, showers are 
provided, clean towels and bedding, socializing is en¬ 
couraged and work out opportunities are available. 
Several establishments I know of offer safe sex classes, 
anonymous testing, etc. 

I feel it is better having sex clubs that provide 
cleanliness, safety for patrons and a place to go to 
socialize or have sex. Who knows — maybe both. I 
prefer bath houses to sex clubs, but until then we have 
to live (or die) for whatever we believe in. 

Steven D. Keller 
San Francisco 


Primacy of Love 

Friends of mine were so amused by Mike Varady’s 
letter captioned, “Membership Has Privilege?” 
{B.A.R., Jan. 13, 1994, pp.8) suggesting NAMBLA of¬ 
fer group membership relates to Catholic priests, as 
well as your own clever retort, that I would have been 
hard pressed to miss it. 

First, let me praise you both for the adroitness of 
your wit and the cleverness of your banter, it brought 
a wry smile to my face. 

Second, as a gay man, a Catholic-Christian and a 
secular Franciscan, I’ve always found it bemusing that 
there exists this repartee between some members of 
the community and some members of the church 
since both communities talk about justice and claim 
the primacy of love as their praxis. Both communities 
have enriched my life. And, I am grateful to both. Per¬ 
haps, “in the spirit of conciliation and the recently past 
holiday season ...” we can move beyond stereotypes 
and globalizing to see each other as individuals (for 
who we really are), and not as a group (for what others 
say about us). Maybe, as co-joint members of the 
human community, we can accord each other the 
privilege of our own humanity. 

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The following letter was sent to the SF Bay 
Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, 124 
Beale St., San Francisco: 

With regard to my rejection as a pack leader for San 
Francisco Pack 3 (Chinatown-North Beach), the 
parents of Pack 3 had a meeting on Friday, Jan. 14 to 
select a new leader. I said that I would take the posi¬ 
tion if I could declare that I was gay. I was summarily 
rejected for consideration for the position. 

Let me mention a few of my qualifications: I grew 
up a Scout and found scouting an enjoyable and worth¬ 
while activity. My son is a Scout and he loves it. I 
was formerly a school teacher. I have written a book 
and numerous newspaper and magazine articles. I 
own my own business and am a respected member 
of the business community. 

I am and have been an active member of Amnesty 
International for decades. Gay civil rights now have 
international recognition. Gay civil rights have 
widespread Bay Area community support. I cannot 
in good conscience take a leadership position in an 
organization that discriminates. I had several parents 
agree that being gay is as irrelevant as being straight, 
Black, Chinese, Jewish or Mexican for Scout 
leadership. 

I urge the Council to cease their bigotry and 
recognize contemporary and community standards of 
human rights. If they cannot, they should not complain 
about a cut-off of funding from organizations like 
United Way and assistance from government agencies. 

It’s time for the Boy Scouts Council to lead the good 
fight. 

. George Davis 
San Francisco 


Quit Limiting Opportunities 

Regarding Alan Frutkin’s recent article, “Back to 
the Couch,” I am (once again) disturbed by the BA.R.’s 
carelessness in covering topics of interest or concern 
to its non-white readers. Why does Mr. Frutkin 
assume that any gay material programmed in the Liv¬ 
ing Room Festival came exclusively from Frameline? 
Did the reporter bother to interview Jennifer 
Maytorena Taylor (one of Mr. Finch’s co¬ 
programmers), a latina queer? Perhaps if he had done 
so, he would have reported more accurately that 
Seams, although decided upon collectively by 
Frameline, Cine Accion and NAATA, was originally 
brought forth to the committee by Ms. Taylor. 

Is it so inconceivable that just because people of col¬ 
or work for ethnically identified organizations that 
they cannot also be lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, trans¬ 
gender? Or that these same people cannot be as con¬ 
cerned with lesbian and gay issues as (white) lesbian 
and gay people seem to be with issues of racism? God 
knows we’re always referencing and making analogies 
to oppression faced by blacks. The reporter did not 
assume that Jack Walsh wasn’t gay (or is gay) just 
because he works for KQED. 

My point is simple: please quit limiting oppor¬ 
tunities for people to have a voice in your publication. 
Follow Frameline’s example in future: focus on the 
commonalities of oppression, “on what lesbians and 
gays share with other cultural groups.” They might 
even share the same sexuality! 

Desi del Valle 
San Francisco 


Save the Memorials 

The brief UPI report on a proposed AIDS memorial 
“garden” in San Diego’s Balboa Park is accurate but 
limited (B.AR. , Jan. 20). A reader might wonder if op¬ 
ponents were unsympathetic. 

Actually, debate has been raging within San Diego’s 
queer and AIDS communities for several months. 
Many AIDS activists fear diversion of funds away 
from urgently needed care and research. 

A few persons propose different types of memorials, 
less vulnerable to vandals, such as new carillon bells 
for the park; or a silent CD version of The Names 
Quilts. After the war, not during. 

G. Tortuga 
La Jolla, CA 


Prowling and Sniffing 

In the spirit of achieving and maintaining a more 
pleasant urban environment, the Duboce Park Poop 
Patrol (DPPP) — an underground organization 
dedicated to eradicating the despicable practice of per¬ 
sons permitting their canines’ crap to become a per¬ 
manent part of the park’s composition — is redoubling 
its efforts to stymie this type of park pollution. 

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response to nature’s nudging, we will be there! 

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flings open a door with the motor still running, a 
quadrupedal bundle of fur speeds into the park, 
dumps, then darts back into the car — we’ll be there! 

Jerry R. DeYoung 
San Francisco 

Ed. Note: We welcome the return of Duboce Park 
as a habitat for humans. 


Hurricane Homo 

On the night of Jan. 17th, following the earthquake 
in Los Angeles, Pat Robertson went on the 700 Club 
to announce that gay and lesbian people were respon¬ 
sible for (1) the earthquake, (2) the blizzards in the 
eastern U.S., (3) the floods in the midwest, (4) the hur¬ 
ricane in Florida and (5) the famine in Africa. 

He “reasoned” that these natural disasters were the 
judgement of “god” upon America because the right 
wing has not risen up and “done something” about us. 

I would ordinarily ignore him, except that he was 
in the middle of a telethon that had already raised $1.17 
million to keep his dog and pony show on the air. 

Please note that the money was being raised for that 
purpose and not for victims of the earthquake, bliz¬ 
zard, floods hurricane or the famine! 

If you disagree with him, please call him at 1-800 
759-0700 and let him know. It’s his nickel... every call 
we make is that much less money for him to spend on 
gay bashing. 

Bud Clark 
San Diego 


Double Standards Are Sickening 

Let me see if I’ve got this right. 

Angela Alioto is being criticized for removing two 
“lesbian supervisors” from various committees of the 
Board of Supervisors. 

A few weeks ago, Alioto was being slammed for 
referring to Carole Migden as a “lesbian supervisor.” 

Now, a group called The Alliance has taken it upon 
themselves to speak for the gay/lesbian community 
and inform Ms. Alioto that “we” will not support her 
in the 1995 mayoral race because of her non-support 
of the two “lesbian supervisors” for reelection. 

There has been a lot of talk about the possibility of 
Carole Migden running for mayor in 1995. Many peo¬ 
ple have stated that it is time for a “lesbian mayor.” 
I agree. It would be great to have a lesbian mayor — 
Roberta Achtenberg. But the fact that a person is gay 
or lesbian does not automatically qualify them. I am 
so sick of the double standard that goes on in politics 
in this community. 

Ronny Marshall 
San Francisco 


See You At Easter 

You’ve done it again! Volunteers, we heartily salute 
you! The Tenderloin Tessie Christmas Dinner was an 
even more resounding success than ever before. Bet¬ 
ween 800 and 900 people had a brighter, more caring 
holiday because of your hard work. It is with sincerest 
gratitude that we, quite simply thank you! Also special 
thanks to Polk Gough and Suzie Cartwright, Emperor 
Douglas Stromberg, Empress Mozzarella, Gladys 
Bumps & Husbands. 

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our Easter Dinner. You are appreciated. 

Mr. Lee Ona and Pushy Phyllis 
San Francisco 


Human Arrogance 

Michael Botkin’s “comic” picture of guinea pigs 
discussing their poison in an animal research 
laboratory was not funny! It was repulsive and cruel 
and clearly states the author’s crude insensitivity to 
the poor, tortured and murdered animals that are 
sacrificed in the name of medical research estimated 
at 100 million a year. 

Oh, such human arrogance that anyone could even 
make a joke about the misery and suffering that con¬ 
tinues to happen in laboratories all over the world. 
The number of animals that are subjected to the most 
atrocious and painful procedures without anesthetic 
makes the Nazi/Holocaust look mild!! 

And if the lack of morality does not move you, then 
perhaps the scientific fraud will. Animal experimen¬ 
tation is fraudulent research. Animals have a different 
reaction to drugs than humans. Just remember the 
Thalidomide babies of the 60s. Pregnant women were 
given Thalidomide after the FDA approved the drug 
after being clinically tested on rats. The result: 10,000 
grossly deformed human babies were born because 
the rats tested successfully. Conclusion: rats are dif¬ 
ferent from humans. Unfortunately, Thalidomide is 
still prescribed through a different name. 

So, there, Michael Botkin, author of the HIV Watch. 
If you really want to help find a cure for AIDS, start 
educational alternative methods of research, i.e., the 
human placenta. And maybe you will be instrumen¬ 
tal in finding a cure for AIDS. 

Rev. Judy Fine 
Healdsburg, California 

Ed. Responds: (a) The cartoon was not by Botkin; 
(b) Oh, such arrogance that anyone could even suggest 
medical research to save human life, carried out on 
animals, equals the suffering of six million Nazi- 
sponsored human deaths; (c) the Thalidomide tragedy 
wasn’t caused by lab rats; the practice of screening 
drugs by testing them on animals has no doubt saved 
other babies from birth defects — not that you care; 
and, (d) Go ahead and be ashamed. Your holier-than- 
thou attitude is more than enough reason for shame. 
[In other words: so there!] 


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Wayne Friday 


Garamendi Gears Up 
For Gubernatorial Bid 


J ohn Garamendi, the 49- 
year-old professional 
politician from the Gold 
Rush area of Calaveras 
County, formally an¬ 
nounced this past weekend 
that he is indeed in the race 
for the Democratic Party 
nomination for governor. 
However, Garamendi, a veter¬ 
an of 20 years in public office 
(two in the Assembly, 14 in 
the state Senate, and the last 
four as the state’s first elected 
insurance commissioner), 
finds himself in an uphill bat¬ 
tle for his party’s nod to face 
Republican incumbent Pete 
Wilson in November. First, 
Garamendi must find a way 
to defeat fellow Democrat 
Kathleen Brown, a much bet¬ 
ter-known candidate who also 
happens to have a huge polit¬ 
ical war chest (some claim $7 
million or more), when he 
faces her in the June Demo¬ 
cratic primary. 

Although both Garamendi 
and Brown lead Wilson in 
current statewide polls in hy¬ 
pothetical November match¬ 
ups, many think Brown has 
the definite advantage merely 
by being a woman in a state 
that in 1992 elected two wom¬ 
en to the U.S. Senate. Howev¬ 
er, although Kathleen Brown 
led both Garamendi and Wil¬ 
son by huge margins in earli¬ 
er polls, the gap between the 
two Democrats has been clos¬ 
ing as of late, and some 
Democratic state officials are 
known to be secretly worried 
that having two women at the 
head of their ticket (Senator 
Dianne Feinstein must stand 


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for re-election this year) might 
actually be a political disad¬ 
vantage. If Garamendi keeps 
closing the gap between him¬ 
self and Brown, she could, de¬ 
spite her early lead and ad¬ 
vantage in fundraising, find 
herself on the short end when 
facing him in June. 

Like all statewide hope¬ 
fuls, Garamendi’s announce¬ 
ment Saturday brought with 
it assurances that he, too, will 
be running as a tough law- 
and-order candidate. Crime is 
the issue for candidates of 
both parties this year, and 
Garamendi, not to be left out, 
pledged a hard line on crimi¬ 
nals. He touted boot camps 
for felons, supported the 
death penalty, and embraced 
the controversial “three 
strikes and you’re out” initia¬ 
tive headed for the November 
ballot. 

Saying that it is time to get 
rid of the Inmate’s Bill of 
Rights, which he stated “guar¬ 
antees prisoners access to 
television, air conditioning, li¬ 
braries and weight sets,” 
Garamendi left no room for 
doubt that he could be as 
tough on crime as any Demo¬ 
crat — or Republican. Howev¬ 
er, while blaming much of 
the state’s problems on crime, 
Garamendi also went out of 
his way to praise drug treat¬ 
ment programs, claiming that 
“most crime is drug-related 
and I’ll find the money for 
treatment programs because 
it is one of my priorities.” 

In the press conference at 
his Mokelumne Hill home, 
Garamendi even quoted Jesse 


Jackson (who some say will 
come to California to cam¬ 
paign for Garamendi) on the 
need to spend more on social 
programs, and bemoaned the 
state’s ever-growing correc¬ 
tions budget, noting that “in 
the past 12 years, we’ve built 
23 major jails in this state and 
only one state college cam¬ 
pus, and yet I ask you, do you 
really think you are safer?” 
While promising to “end state 
welfare programs as we cur¬ 
rently know them,” the candi¬ 
date also said this does not 
mean cutting money from 
families but rather providing 
them with state-created jobs, 
which even he admitted 
would probably cost more 
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Garamendi has in previous 
speeches already staked out 
the lonely position of being 
the only gubernatorial hope¬ 
ful to call for a tax hike to 
help pay for the rebuilding of 
post-quake Los Angeles, but 
refused to talk about this on 
Saturday, preferring to stay 
focused on crime like every 
other politico. Get used to it, 
folks; the Polly Klaas case, 
the Menendez brothers trial, 
the continuing rise in crime 
statistics make it a foregone 
conclusion: the winners in 
November will be the candi¬ 
dates who best convince the 
electorate that they will be 
tougher on crime. 

As for the Democratic 
nominee against Wilson, well, 
Brown clearly has the advan¬ 
tage now, but John Garamen¬ 
di is looking better and better 
to those chomping at the bit 
to get rid of Wilson. I 
wouldn’t be surprised if he is 
the upset Democratic primary 
winner in June. Stay tuned to 
this one; it’s only beginning. 

Politics and poker 

To those who have called 
complaining that “leaders” of 
the Toklas Democratic Club 
have decided that their group 
will “boycott” a meeting with 
Mayor Jordan later this 
month: yep, this is definitely 
what’s called “biting off your 
nose to spite your face.” 
Nope, it doesn’t make sense. 
Hell, folks, you don’t have to 
agree with everything Jordan 
does or says, but don’t cry lat¬ 
er that he isn’t sympathetic or 
cooperative if you won’t even 
meet with the guy. 

When Representative Don 


Edwards announced last 
week that he’d retire from his 
16th congressional seat, for¬ 
mer San Jose Mayor Tom 
McEnery, already tipped off 
in advance by Edwards, was 
ready to make the first entry 
into the race to succeed the 
veteran Democrat. Others 
will no doubt follow suit, but 
McEnery’s the man to beat in 
this safe Democratic district. 

At the National Governors 
Conference this past week¬ 
end, even many Republicans 
were saying that Bill Clinton’s 
State of the Union address 
was “one hell of a speech” by 
the young president. 

Olympic diver and aspir¬ 
ing actor Greg Louganis is 
writing his biography to be 
published by Random House. 
In it he publicly reveals his 
homosexuality for the first 
time; the Olympic gold-medal 
winner says that “I know 
Wheaties didn’t want me [for 
commercials) because they 
said I didn’t fit their all-Amer¬ 
ican image. I don’t know if 
that was because they had 
heard of my sexual orienta¬ 
tion or not, but my feeling 
was that if companies were so 
uptight about this, I didn’t 
want to work with them any¬ 
way.” 

Hillary Rodham Clinton 
received a Commitment-to- 
Life award last week at the 
AIDS Project Los Angeles 
fundraising banquet in LA, 
where nearly $4 million was 
raised to fight the epidemic. 
The first lady received a rous¬ 
ing standing ovation, and the 
award was presented by Bar¬ 
bra Streisand, who, like Eliz¬ 
abeth Taylor, has dedicated 
so much of her work and 
time to finding the cure. 

Some of Assemblywoman 
Jackie Speier’s friends are 
now quietly saying that they 
expect her to retire from pol¬ 
itics following the sad, tragic 
death of her popular husband, 
Dr. Steve Sierra. I’ve known 
Speier since she first ran for 
the Assembly, and there isn’t 
a nicer person in public life. 

Dennis Collins is now 
working on the Arlo Smith 
for Attorney General cam¬ 
paign, and Mike Housh is 
working on the Don Perata 
for Controller race. 

Former San Francisco po¬ 
litical consultant Joe Shumate 
has resigned from Governor 
Wilson’s staff, reopened his 
campaign management firm, 
and will run GOP Assembly- 
man Bill Jones’ campaign for 
secretary of state. 

Quote of the Week (on the 
Lorena Bobbitt trial) from Su¬ 
san Estrich, longtime feminist 
activist, political consultant, 
national campaign manager 
for Michael Dukakis’ presi¬ 
dential race, and now a law 
professor at UCLA: “Lorena 
Bobbitt is a criminal, not a 
feminist heroine. Those fem¬ 
inists who have flocked to her 
defense have done a disser¬ 
vice, not only to the cause of 
feminism, but more impor¬ 
tant, to the real victims of bat¬ 
tered wives’ syndrome — the 
millions of women who are 
beaten by their husbands and 
do not respond by assaults on 
their organs. They are the 
women who deserve sympa¬ 
thy and attention, and sup¬ 
port from the criminal justice 
system — not Lorena Bobbitt.” 

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[.'ARCH 1963 

Volume 7, Number b 



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Ladder, published by the Daughters of Bilitis. 


G etting ready to move 
is like diving .off a 
cliff: You hold your 
breath, pack your 
gear, head for the unknown, 
and pray it all works out. 

This is the position in 
which I find myself, here in 
the first week of February. 
Girlfriend and I are moving 
in March, and it’s been the 
main thing on my mind. Of 
course, some people would 
wait until the last week of *he 
month to look for a new 
abode. You can do that in this 
city through rental services 
like Community Rentals, pro¬ 
vided you’re willing to wait. 
Just be sure and keep your 
fingers crossed. 

Being a Taurus, this is an 
impossibility for me. I need to 
know where I’ll be nesting, so 
I’ve already found us a new 
pad. It’s a cozy little place in 
Bernal Heights, that happen¬ 
ing ’hood where all the dykes 
are flocking. We’ll be hidden 
away in a bungalow with all 
the luxuries that you can’t 
find near the Castro. Like a 
garden, a garage — big enough 
for two motorcycles, a truck, 
and a darkroom — and some 
well-deserved peace and 
quiet. 

Sure, I’ll be further than 
five minutes away from most 
of the things I now hold near 


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and dear. Yes, it may become 
an effort to leave my new 
house sometimes, so my so¬ 
cial calendar could suffer. But 
I’ll actually be able to hear 
the birds chirp from my bed¬ 
room window. Amazing! We 
may even get a hummingbird 
feeder and plant tomatoes out 
back. Are there humming¬ 
birds in San Francisco? 

The worst part of moving 
is not the actual physical task: 
no, no, no. That may be 
painful, especially when 
you’ve accumulated as much 
stuff as I have. Ask anyone 
who’s a pack rat, though, and 
they’ll tell you the same sad 
story: the worst thing about 
moving is the packing. 

Serious undertaking 

Sorting through a lifetime 
of one’s personal belongings 
is a serious, sad undertaking 
for someone who is unable to 
throw things away. My room¬ 
mates think it’s a riot that I’m 
packing already. They say 
they could pack in two hours, 
and I believe them. They 
don’t have ten years of news¬ 
papers and magazine clip¬ 
pings crowding the clothes in 
their closets, or an awesome 
zine collection, or just about 
every issue of Out/Look, Out, 
and Outweek ever published. 
Not to mention more books 
than I’ll ever read, more 
clothes than I’ll ever wear, 
and more junk than a decent¬ 
sized garage sale could hope 
to rid me of. Help! 

It’s incredible the kinds of 
things I have found in only a 
few days of earnest effort. 
Love letters from boys in my 
9th grade class, birthday 
cards from my long deceased 
grandparents, and requests 
for my zines from men in 
state prison — the kind that 
go, “May I offer you, in lieu of 
payment, a night of having 
your way with me. Being as 
you know where to go to get 


laid and I haven’t been laid in 
eight years, I can offer you 
one hell of a good time. 
Sound like a deal?” 

Side by side with such pro¬ 
posals lie remnants of a queer 
archivist’s dream: old copies 
of The Ladder, the lesbian 
magazine published primarily 
before I was born. Much of its 
content was quite visionary, 
as this excerpt from a 1963 
editorial by Del Martin 
shows: “It is said that the ho- 
mophile organizations must 
do away with the negative 
stereotype of the homosexual 
... and create a new image ... 
who cannot be distinguished 
by appearance, but only by 
his or her choice of love part¬ 
ner. The new image would 
be a dream or goal for those 
homosexuals who had not at¬ 
tained this exalted state. The 
new image would be, and is, 
a mockery. The only ‘image’ 
that will change the public’s 
attitude would be of flesh 
and blood. Those who deny 
their fellows deny them¬ 
selves, and the ‘image’ be¬ 
comes a hollow shell without 
substance.” 

Phew! So much for 
straight-acting, straight-look¬ 
ing! These gals had it togeth¬ 
er 30 years ago. Come on all 
you executives and muscle 
boys! After all this time, can 
you believe there are still peo¬ 
ple in the closet? 

In this same issue there’s a 

It's incredible 
the kinds of 
things I have 
found in only 
a few days of 
earnest effort. 

listing for all the gay books 
published in 1962, most of 
them long out of print and, 
unfortunately, forgotten. Any¬ 
one out there still got a copy 
of Perfume and Pain by 
Kimberley Kemp? How 
about Trap of Lesbos, Every¬ 
thing But a Husband, or 
Babes Behind Bars? Lesbian 
lit may have come a long way 
since the early 1960s, but they 


sure don’t name ’em like they 
used to! 

More goodies 

Along with such priceless 
artifacts, my closet yields oth¬ 
er goodies awaiting their 
transfer to their next home. 
The issue of Alpha Flight 
where the superhero comes 
out; issues of a dishy queer 
rag, Town Talk, from 1960s 
San Francisco; Rolling Stone 
issues featuring Madonna and 
Sinead O’Connor on their 
covers; and every doodle Di¬ 
ane DiMassa’s ever scribbled 
on a letter to me. Hey, look at 
what happened with Andy 
Warhol. These could be 
worth millions someday! 

You may think it’s silly for 
me to write a whole column 
about the contents of my clos¬ 
et. But, as gay people, I figure 
what we hold on to may have 
more significance than what 
straight folk do. I think many 
people tend to keep things be¬ 
cause we find them validat¬ 
ing. All that stuff is a piece of 
who we’ve been and what 
we’ve become. And who 
needs validating more than 
queers? 

So when I look back on 
those old issues of The Lad¬ 
der, I see more than a de¬ 
funct lesbian mag. Rather, 
when I hold this precious 
publication in my hand, I see 
where I have come from, and 
it inspires me in my own 
work as an editor at Deneuve. 

Similarly, my copy of Al¬ 
pha Flight is a mini-mile¬ 
stone for gay rights if only be¬ 
cause so many kids read the 
words of the first ever “out” 
superhero: “I am gay.” And so 
it goes with just about every 
scrap of paper I unearth. 
Somewhere, somehow, all 
these things seem less senti¬ 
mentally scrappy than plain 
old queer history. If we don’t 
preserve it, who will? 

Come moving day, I will 
not be a happy girl. Lugging 
all these boxes will be hard, 
but not as hard as deciding 
what merits disposal. For 
now, I’ll err on the side of 
caution and bring it all with 
me, once again. At least now 
it won’t cram up my closets. 
Our new place has a big base¬ 
ment just waiting to be 
filled! ▼ 


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California News 




Participants in the January 29 demo at the Central California Women's Correctional Facility 
at Chowchilla protested the lack of medical treatment for women with HIV/AIDS there. 

(Photo: Judi Parks) 

Activists Rally at Chowchilla 
For Better Prisoner Healthcare 


by Judi Parks 

Over 100 activists, mostly 
Bay Area and queer, drove 
three hours to the San 
Jouquin Valley and circled the 
main gate of the Central Cal¬ 
ifornia Women’s Facility at 
Chowchilla the afternoon of 
Saturday, January 29. They 
were there, male and female, 
to let prison officials know 
that they consider appropriate 
health care for all incarcerat¬ 
ed women is a right, not a 
luxury. 

Carrying signs and chant¬ 
ing, “Toby Wong, you lie/You 
don’t care if prisoners die,” 
activists shouted down Wong, 
the public information officer 
who denied the prison provid¬ 
ed substandard HIV treat¬ 
ment and pleaded with the 
crowd to “make recommenda¬ 
tions instead of confronta¬ 
tion.” 

Fresno lawyer Catherine 


Campbell, who says she has 
investigated medical inade¬ 
quacies in the prison for two 
years, is making a recommen¬ 
dation. She is filing a class ac¬ 
tion suit on behalf of over 100 
women prisoners she has in¬ 
terviewed. 

ACT UP prison and AIDS 
activist Jim Lewis made a rec¬ 
ommendation, too. His Prison 
Issues Committee wrote to 
the Honorable Tom Umberg, 
Chair of the Assembly Select 
Committee on Prison Opera¬ 
tions, to request an indepen¬ 
dent audit of the California 
Department of Corrections’s 
annual budget. 

Lewis’s committee had 
hoped to determine why ap¬ 
propriated and allocated tax 
monies have failed to secure 
community-standard delivery 
of health care, and to create 
an ongoing office of Inspector- 
General to report to the Leg¬ 
islature and monitor medical 


and civil rights issues in the 
prisons. 

James Gomez, the Director 
of the California Department 
of Corrections, followed with 
a recommendation of his 
own. He removed Lewis 
from a position — as the only 
activist member — on his 
“AIDS Advisory Committee,” 
one week after the letter was 
written. 

Inside the prison, activist 
and HIV-positive prisoner 
Joann Walker also has a rec¬ 
ommendation, which she 
wants others to hear: “I raise 
pure hell around here, be¬ 
cause there is no other way to 
get things done,” she said. “I 
often run into trouble all the 
time because I will speak up 
and out. I have no problem 
fighting the system. I want to 
put a call out around the 
world: Help the HIV/AIDS 
Incarcerated women at 
CCWF.”J 


LAVA 

(Continued from page 1) 

riod, has long been an educa¬ 
tor and entertainer in the 
venue of lesbian safe sex. She 
is famous — or infamous — for 
leaving no stone unturned 
when answering the unan¬ 
swerable question “What do 
lesbians do in bed?” during 
her workshops and fundrais¬ 
ing events. 

According to Donoho, the 
awards “honor leaders who 
have enhanced the image, em¬ 
powerment, or understanding 
of lesbians within and outside 
the lesbian community.” 

This year the Public Ser¬ 
vice Award will be presented 
to Ruth Mahaney for her edu¬ 
cational work in developing 
women’s studies programs in 
California and the western 
United States, her tireless ac¬ 
tivism nationally against 
racism, sexism, homophobia, 
and physicalism, and her 
work with the Gay/Lesbian 
Historical Society of North¬ 
ern California. 

The Community Service 
Award will honor Lisbeth 
Tellefsen, co-founder of Ache: 
A Journal for Lesbians of 
African Descent and “Ache 
Presents,” which has present¬ 
ed over 40 cultural and educa¬ 
tional forums. Tellefsen has 
worked on behalf of lesbians 
as editor, event producer, ac¬ 
tivist, musician, photographer 
and video artist. 

The Private Creation 
Award goes to independent 


The 1994 LAVA [Lean, An¬ 
gular and Visually Appeal¬ 
ing?] Awards will be presen¬ 
ted April 2 at the Westin St. 
Francis. 


film and video producer, De¬ 
bra Chasnoff, who won an 
Academy Award for Best 
Short Documentary of 1991 
for Deadly Deception-General 
Electric, Nuclear Weapons and 
our Environment which 
she wrote, produced, and di¬ 
rected. In accepting her Os¬ 
car, Chasnoff “came out” on 
national television, thanking 
her life partner Kim Klausner 
for support. Chasnoff, co¬ 
founder and former editor of 
Out/Look, also created the first 
documentary film to explore 
parenting options for lesbians, 
Choosing Children, and Acting 
Our Age, a film about women’s 
experiences growing old. 

California activist Deborah 
L. Johnson-Rolon will be the 
keynote speaker for the 
evening. A board member of 


The National Gay and Les¬ 
bian Task Force and the Na¬ 
tional Black Gay and Lesbian 
Leadership Forum, Johnson- 
Rolon is also well known for 
her 1984 civil rights action 
against Papa Choux, a Los 
Angeles restaurant, which she 
and her lover successfully 
sued when the restaurant re¬ 
fused to serve them in its 
“romantic section” because 
they were not heterosexual. 

As a community event, the 
LAVA awards dinner bene¬ 
fits “A Fund of Our Own,” 
the philanthropic arm of 
BACW that was created in 
1989 and is administered by 
the Horizons Foundation. 
During 1993, the fund con¬ 
tributed to many important 
lesbian organizations and 
worthwhile projects in the 
Bay Area including Bangle, 
Battered Women’s Alterna¬ 
tive, BRAVA! for Women in 
the Arts, CRUEL Film Pro¬ 
ject, Hasha, Lesbian Visual 
Artists, Lyon-Martin Wom¬ 
en’s Health Services, LYRIC, 
Pacific Center, Purple Moon 
Dance Project, Sistah Boom, 
VOICES, Whiptail Lizard 
Women’s Collective and 
Women’s Cancer Resource 
Center. 

Regional Awards will also 
be presented to Marian Marti¬ 
no, Katherine A. O’Hanlan, 
Wiggsy Silvertsen and Mar¬ 
garet Walker. 

Tickets for the benefit — 
which is expected to sell out 
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by Marghe Covino 
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December 22 of 1993, four 
gay men have been murdered 
in Sacramento. To all appear¬ 
ances the murders were unre¬ 
lated, except that, according 
to Joanna Cassese, executive 
director of the Lambda Com¬ 
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the victims, and then made 
remark about gay men and 
“promiscuity.” 

On December 22, James 
Graves, 50, was bludgeoned 
to death in his bedroom and a 
fire was set in the apartment’s 
kitchen to attempt to cover 
the crime. Police say they are 
“very close to arresting a sus¬ 
pect.” Graves’s death was re¬ 
ported in the press. 

"Probably unrelated" 

According to Sacramento 
police spokesman, Michael 
Heenan, the murder of the 
second man, David Van- 
gundy, 40, “was probably un¬ 
related to his being gay.” Van- 
gundy has been identified as 
a drug dealer and, according 
to Heenan, “was killed during 
a drug-related break-in at his 
apartment.” 

The case of John Kajitani, 
49, on January 17, was quite 
different. Kajitani, a farm 
equipment salesman, was 
Japanese, and an extremely 
closeted, solitary individual 
unknown to the “out” gay and 
lesbian community. While in¬ 
vestigating his murder, police 
discovered he was a gay man 
but respected his privacy. 

“I’m not interested in that 
aspect of his life except as it 
impacts on his murder,” the 
investigating officer told the 
Bay Area Reporter, “and it’s 
not my business to ‘out’ the 
man to his family.” Police 
quickly arrested a street per¬ 
son, 18-year-old Danny Cis¬ 
neros, and charged him with 
Kajitani’s murder. Reportedly, 
the “street-wise” Cisneros is at¬ 
tempting to use a “homosexual 
panic” alibi, that he killed his 
victim after Kajitani made 
overtures. However, according 
to one police officer, “we know 
this wasn’t Danny’s first time 
out” [indulging in gay sex]. 

Particularly noteworthy 
was the viciousness of the 
killing, in that there were 
wounds inflicted on the body 
after death. There was little 
or no reporting of Kajitani’s 
murder at the time of his 
death. 

Last week, Leon Kaufman, 
70, was found stabbed to 
death in his mobile home, ap¬ 
parently two days after he 
had been attacked by two as¬ 
sailants. Kaufman, a retired 
produce worker from Lucky 
supermarkets, was found clad 
in his underwear with multi¬ 
ple stab wounds to the chest. 
He was the volunteer caretak¬ 
er at Faces, a gay dance bar 
in Sacramento, as a kind of 
hobby. 

Owner Terry Sidie could 
barely suppress his tears as 
he told the B.A.R ., “Leon was 
a sweet old guy. He was like 
a member of the staff, he just 
wanted to be with people and 
he was always pleasant and 
helpful to everybody — he 
never had a bad word for 
anyone.” Sidie said Kaufman 
frequently worried about the 
street kids and the drugs they 
could get into. “Often he 
would take them home to 
make sure they had some¬ 
thing to eat and a place to 
sleep and clean up,” Sidie 
said, “and he’d try to find 
them jobs. I kept trying to tell 
him not to be so soft-hearted 
— that he’d get hurt — but he’d 
tell me his boys would never 
hurt him. Now look what’s 
happened.” 

On Monday, police arrest¬ 


ed a 14-year-old runaway in 
the Salt Lake City, Utah, 
home of his mother, where he 
allegedly fled after the slay¬ 
ing. He will be charged with 
murder. A second suspect, an 
adult male, is also close to be¬ 
ing arrested. 

The lurid TV angle 

Kaufman’s death sparked a 
series of television “teasers” 
about his murder and then 
expanded to the other mur¬ 
ders that had taken place. 
During the report on KXTV 
Channel 10, Kajitani was “out¬ 
ed” and reporter Dana 
Howard connected the deaths 
to “promiscuous behavior.” 

Cassese is outraged. “This 
is a classic example of ‘blam¬ 
ing the victim,”’ she said. “I’m 
sure that word ‘promiscuous’ 
was used solely because these 
crimes are gay-related. That’s 
the worst kind of stereotype — 
the same thing they do with 
women about rape: ‘she was 
asking for it.’ If this was hap¬ 
pening at non-gay singles bars 
the words used would be less 
judgmental,” she said. 

"We help one another" 

“Not all gay men pick up 
other men just for sex,” Cass¬ 
ese continued. “Our commu¬ 
nity has a huge heart — we 
help one another, we em¬ 
pathize when we see some of 



KXTV reporter Dana 
Howard. 

these kids who have been 
thrown out of their homes be¬ 
cause they’re gay, and we try 
to help and make things bet¬ 
ter for them than some of us 
had it. In other cases, some¬ 
times people need help, are 
lonely, want companionship 
and just a cup of coffee and a 
little conversation — and no¬ 
body, nobody, deserves to be 
killed for those reasons or 
any other reason.” 

Lambda board president 
Laura Enright has asked for 
an inquiry into the television 
report. “As yet, I have not re¬ 
ceived any information from 
the television station which 
would convince me that I 
should not file a grievance 
with the Human Rights Com¬ 
mission,” Enright said. “I 
can’t imagine what this re¬ 
porter could have been think¬ 
ing. Certainly, I can see 
warning people about taking 
strangers into their homes as 
a general practice for every¬ 
one — but this blame the vic¬ 
tim mentality is outrageous. I 
can’t imagine what John Kaji¬ 
tani’s aged parents must be 
going through — all for the 
sake of a ten-second sound 
bite,” Enright said. 

Michael Beardsley, news 
director for Sacramento’s 
Channel 10, said on January 
31 he would review the tape 
of the newscast and “get 
back” to the B.A.R. ▼ 


































California News 




Dragon slayers 

The annual GAPA banquet saw the presentation of two Godzy awards to "those who have 
contributed the most to the organization over the past year/' Jeff Sead and Manny Dacalanio 
were the winners announced at the January 29 dinner, which featured remarks from Helen 
Zia, contributing editor at Ms. Magazine. (Photo: Rick Gerharter) 


Gay Sec'y of State 
Candidate Miller 
Gets Mugged in L.A. 


Get Out Of The Old. 
Get Into The Cold. 


by Marghe Covino 
B.A.R. Capitol Correspondent 

LOS ANGELES - “It’s all 
in a day’s work, some bad 
guy has my wallet and phone 
but I have my life,” Tony 
Miller, the openly gay candi¬ 
date for California Secretary 
of State, told the Bay Area 
Reporter Tuesday from a 
meeting place in Beverly 
Hills. 

Last Friday, January 21, 
Miller and his partner were 
badly shaken as they were 
confronted by a man with a 
gun who demanded Miller’s 
wallet and portable phone. 
The man then appeared to 
see something behind Miller, 
said “Oh shit,” and fled with¬ 
out robbing Miller’s compan¬ 
ion. 

Miller, as chief deputy sec¬ 
retary of state, was in Los An¬ 
geles Friday for the signing of 
emergency legislation that 
would keep criminal defen¬ 
dants behind bars until earth¬ 
quake-impacted courts and 
facilities are again function¬ 
ing. The new law provides 
that criminal defendants may 
be held for seven days before 
arraignment instead of the 
currently standard 72 hours. 

Miller was also scheduled 
to attend the Human Rights 
Campaign Fund reception on 
Saturday and to attend a se¬ 
ries of business meetings dur¬ 
ing the first part of the week. 

“After the signing on Fri¬ 
day, we were near Wilshire 
Boulevard, so we stopped off 
to have a bite to eat,” Miller 
said. He appeared to have a 
philosophical attitude toward 
the robbery. “The guy ap¬ 
proached us on the street on 
our way to the restaurant — 
he had a gun. He was a little 
guy, but with that gun he 
looked like John Wayne,” the 
six-foot-plus Miller laughed. 
“The good news is that we’re 
safe. That’s all that matters.” 

Ironically, in addition to 
the $50 and the credit cards in 
Miller’s wallet, he also lost his 
concealed weapon permit. 
“But Peter didn’t lose any¬ 
thing except a few years of 
his mental health,” he 
laughed, “so we were still 
able to go out to dinner after 
we made our report to 
LAPD.” 

Miller is a declared candi¬ 
date to succeed his boss and 
mentor, Secretary of State 
March Fong Eu, who is 
awaiting a Clinton appoint¬ 
ment as ambassador to Mi¬ 
cronesia. Eu supports Miller’s 
election bid, but he faces stiff 
competition from Southern 
California as Richard Woo, 
losing contender for mayor of 
Los Angeles, and Assembly- 
member Gwen Moore, D-Los 
Angeles, implicated in the leg¬ 
islature’s “Shrimpscam” deba¬ 
cle, are both considering run¬ 
ning for the office. Eu’s son is 
also planning to run, but as a 
Republican, and without his 
mother’s endorsement. As- 
semblymember Jackie Speier, 
who was considered a strong' 
contender, dropped out due 
to the potentially adverse ef¬ 
fect and stress that campaign¬ 
ing would have on her preg¬ 
nancy. ▼ 


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"What's in a Name?” and Other 
Weird Happenings at Sister Spirit 


by Marghe Covino 

Wanda Henson is exhausted. 
Chronic back pain, stress and 
unrelenting personal attacks 
all take their toll at Camp 
Sister Spirit, but she’s manag¬ 
ed to keep her sense of humor 
intact. “We got another 
threatening letter and we wre 
finally assigned an F.B.I. agent. 
On Jan. 20 when we came out 
here I could barely keep a 
straight face — his name is 
‘Agent Lawless,”’ Wanda 
laughed. 

However, Wanda says, the 
dilemma of Sheriff s Sergeant 
Larry Dykes is even better. 
“We’ve been having a prob¬ 
lem with a school bus that 
stops at our gate and honks 
the horn and then the kids all 
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not the faggots — we’re the 
dykes!’ He put his hand up 
over his name tag like he’d 
been shot. They’ve been call¬ 
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for so long I guess they forgot 
about ‘dyke.’ It kinda shook 
him up a little,” Wanda 
chuckled. 

Wanda reports that during 
the past week, after a great 
deal of negotiation, the U.S. 
Department of Forestry came 
out to the property to dig fire- 
lanes and clear underbrush. 
“We were able to get moved 
up on the list because of the 
bomb threats we received,” 
she told the B.A.R. “We’ve 
been hearing explosions 
down by the gate - they’re 
hard enough to knock books 
off the shelves in the house, 
and on January 22 our rain¬ 
bow flag was stolen. But the 
local police minimize what 
we tell them. Even the police 
report on the dog which was 
read at the first town meeting 
was falsified when they 
' claimed there were not bullet 
holes in that poor animal — 
and there were!” 

ATF to the rescue? 

The federal Department of 
Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire¬ 
arms takes the incidents 
much more seriously than the 
local police, and has been as¬ 
signed to investigate bomb 
threats and possible criminal 
trespass on the women’s 
property. 

Wanda is the dark-haired, 
feisty Henson, and Brenda is 
the more placid of the two. 
However, in the face of the 
destruction of their dream of 
having an educational retreat 
for women who are poor, bat¬ 
tered, illiterate, and living on 
a sub-poverty level, Brenda 
tells the religious right big¬ 
ots,’’You kicked this soap box 
up under my feet — now I’m 
gonna take a stand on it.” The 
women report that news of a 
bomb threat to their home 
was reported anonymously to 
a local country-western radio 
station. “Someone called in to 


alert them that some people 
were gonna bomb us, and the 
F.B.I. was notified,” they said. 
“We also filed papers with the 
ATF invoking the Anti-Klan 
Act of 1964, which states that 
people can’t have meetings 
for the unlawful purpose of 
depriving citizens of their 
constitutional rights. In addi¬ 
tion, government employees 
like the sheriff and deputies 
cannot participate in such 
meetings,” the Hensons said. 

The Hensons fight back in 
little ways, unwilling to be 
passive victims. Wanda, who 
is a gadget freak, just got a 
paint sprayer. “You know, 
you just can’t get good laven¬ 
der paint in spray cans, so 
this is going to work just fine. 
If they keep messing with us 
every tree on this place is go¬ 
ing to be lavender, believe 
me. And please,” she added, 
“ask people who can, to send 
us rainbow flags — any size 
rainbow flags are okay; I just 
want to keep putting them up 
all over the property.” 

Send flags to: Camp Sister 
Spirit, P.O. Box 12, Ovett, 
MS 39464. 

The Hensons are anxiously 
awaiting the arrival of wom¬ 
en from the Bay Area Coali¬ 
tion Against Operation Res¬ 
cue (BACOAR) and their 
counterparts from Sacramen¬ 
to, SACOAR. According to at¬ 
torney and clinic defender, 
Alison Gude, the local women 
are still trying to raise money 
for transportation to Missis¬ 
sippi.'^ “We’re hoping to be 
able to get down there within 
two weeks,” Gude said, “but 
we want to have 15 or 20 peo¬ 
ple going there on a rotating 
basis. We desperately need 
small or large donations of 
money or frequent flyer 
tickets.” 

Send donations to RO. Box 
19261. Sacramento, CA 95819. 

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Killer of Indiana 
Lesbian Gets Death 
Penalty After All 


United Press International 

WASHINGTON - The 
U.S. Supreme Court by a 
vote of 7-2 has upheld the 
death sentence of an Indiana 
man who argued that because 
a jury did not convict him of 
“knowingly” killing someone, 
he should not be executed. 

Thomas Schiro confessed 
to his counselor at an 
Evansville, Indiana, halfway 
house that he murdered Lau¬ 
ra Luebbehusen. Her body 
was discovered in her 
Evansville home on February 
5, 1981. 

According to court docu¬ 
ments, blood covered the 
walls and the floor of the 
crime scene. Luebbehusen 
had been strangled, and a 
coroner ruled that some of 
her wounds had been caused 
after death, including a hu¬ 
man bite on the thigh. 

Schiro later told a county 
jail inmate he had raped the 


woman both before and after 
killing her. He also told his 
girlfriend he had gained ac¬ 
cess to the house by claiming 
his car broke down, and had 
raped Luebbehusen repeated¬ 
ly after she told him she was 
a lesbian. 

At the time, part of the le¬ 
gal Indiana definition of mur¬ 
der was to “knowingly or in¬ 
tentionally” kill someone else. 
Schiro was charged with 
“knowingly” killing the wom¬ 
an; murder during a rape; and 
killing her while committing 
deviate sexual conduct. 

The jury filled in a guilty 
verdict for murder during a 
rape, but left the other 
charges blank. Even though 
the jury recommended 
against the death penalty, the 
judge sentenced Schiro to be 
executed. 

The murderer’s execution 
date had been suspended 
pending the Supreme Court’s 
decision. ▼ 


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When Wanda and Brenda 
Henson picked a lawyer to 
defend their rights at Camp 
Sister Spirit in Ovett, Missis¬ 
sippi, they selected David 
Daniels of Biloxi. Little did 
they know they had hired the 
real-life embodiment of Atti- 
cus Finch of “To Kill A 
Mockingbird.” In defense of 
his clients, Daniels — a conser¬ 
vative, straight, Republican 
Christian — has invoked the 
criminal statute of the Anti- 
Klan Act of 1875. 

“In Section 242,” Daniels 
told the B.A.R., “there is the 
provision for a $10,000 fine 
and ten years in prison. My 
problem is getting the Justice 
Department to understand 
that the Act has no require¬ 
ment that there first be an ac¬ 
tion by the state in order for 
it to go into effect. The Act 
can be invoked by private cit¬ 
izens,” he said. 

Daniels, who says he refus¬ 
es to be locked into the belief 
that homosexuality is wrong 
or sinful, says, “The Bible 
says a lot of things, it can be 
used to prove almost any¬ 
thing you want to say, but 
that’s just not Christianity.” 
Oddly, while this Mississippi 
lawyer suddenly finds himself 
a gay rights attorney, as more 
and more gays and lesbians, 
attracted by his ardent advo¬ 
cacy for his clients rights, 
come to him for help; attor¬ 
neys for Lambda Legal De¬ 
fense in New York and Los 
Angeles are reluctant to talk 
about the Anti-Klan Act but 
term the idea “intriguing.” 

Both Beatrice Dohrn of the 
Fund’s New York office and 
Jeff Fong of the Los Angeles 
office seem to think that the 
Colorado court decision, 
which found Amendment 2 to 
be unconstitutional because it 
would deny the ordinary 
rights of citizenship to gays 
and lesbians, would not be 
sufficient to apply. For the 
most part, in the face of eight 
new state initiatives, gay legal 
strategy seems to be one of 
“wait and see” until some¬ 
thing gets to the U.S. 
Supreme Court and the issue 
can be addressed on a federal 
level. Fong however, was 
frank in his admission that he 
is not familiar with the Klan 
Act and was open to further 
discussion on the subject. 

Meanwhile, when Daniels 
was interviewed he was clear¬ 
ly excited about the idea of 
civil remedies to be found in 
section 1985 of the Klan Act. 
“It seems to me that the law 
is pretty clear,” he said, “just 
because there isn’t too much 
case law to go on doesn’t 
mean you can’t proceed. 
There’s nothing to lose and 
everything to gain. I’m using 
the criminal section but that’s 
not to say that at some point 
the civil section wouldn’t ap¬ 
ply.” 

Section 1985 (1) addresses 
Preventing officer from per¬ 
forming duties; Section 1985 
(2) deals with Obstructing jus¬ 
tice and Intimidating a party, 
witness, or a juror; and the 
pertinent Section 1985 (3) 
deals with Depriving persons 
of rights or privileges. It 
reads: 

“...[I]n any case of conspir¬ 
acy set forth in this section, if 
one or more persons engaged 
therein do, or cause to be 
done, any act in furtherance 
of the object of such conspir¬ 


acy, whereby another is in¬ 
jured in his person or proper¬ 
ty, or deprived of having and 
exercising any right or privi¬ 
lege of a citizen of the United 
States, the party so injured or 
deprived may have an action 
for the recovery of damages 
occasioned by such injury or 
deprivation, against any one 



or more of the conspirators.” 

In addition, Section 1986 
clearly sets forth that any per¬ 
son who has knowledge of 
any of the wrongs conspired 
to be done as set forth in Sec¬ 
tion 1985 and who have the 
power to prevent or aid in 
preventing the commission of 
same and neglects or refuses 


to do is also liable to the in¬ 
jured party or parties for all 
damages caused by that 
wrongful act. 

If the Klan Act, (which 
does not mention race or col¬ 
or) were applied in Colorado 
and invoked in Nevada, 
Michigan, Florida, Washing¬ 
ton, Idaho, Arizona, Oregon, 
Nebraska, and other states 
where anti-gay initiatives 
have been put forth to de¬ 
prive gay and lesbian citizens 
of their civil rights (in some 
instances, even the right to 
petition government for relief) 
it might cause the proponents 
of the initiatives to think 
twice about attempting to 
take away the rights of gay 
and lesbian citizens. 

The reluctance of national 
gay organizations to seriously 
address, investigate, consider, 
or even talk about this subject 
is both puzzling and frighten¬ 
ing. The smart money should 
go for for funding the 
straight, conservative Repub¬ 
lican Christian guy in Missis¬ 
sippi — he just might give the 
lesbian and gay community a 
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British Lawmakers Try To 
Separate the Men from the Boys 


by Gavin Haycock 

LONDON (UPI) - A cross¬ 
party delegation of British 
lawmakers launched a cam¬ 
paign Wednesday, January 12, 
to lower the age of consent 
for gay men to 16 years of 
age, an issue likely to divide 
the government and pose a 
new threat to Prime Minister 
John Major’s push to reassert 
traditional values. 

Under British law, the age 
of consent for homosexual 
men is 21 years old — five 
years older than for hetero¬ 
sexuals and lesbians. 

The six-member group of 
lawmakers, who are backed 
by lobbyists from cultural and 
business fields, hope to 


change the age of consent 
with an amendment to the 
government’s new Criminal 
Justice Bill, now in its second 
reading in Parliament. A vote 
on the issue is expected to be 
held within three weeks. 

Former Health Minister 
Edwina Currie fired the first 
shots in the campaign late 
Tuesday during the second 
reading of the crime bill. She 
quoted 19th century dramatist 
Oscar Wilde, who said: “You 
cannot make men moral by 
law.” 

Lobbyists for Stonewall, a 
group seeking equality for les¬ 
bian and gay men that is help¬ 
ing orchestrate the political 
campaign, said Wednesday 
they expected fierce debate 


on the issue and a tough fight. 

“We are optimistic, but it 
is going to be a very close 
race,” a Stonewall spokesman 
said. 

Homosexuality for men 
over the age of 21 was legal¬ 
ized in Britain in 1967. At the 
time, 21 was the age at which 
people could vote. Within a 
year the voting age was low¬ 
ered to 18. 

The law affecting women 
allows for consenting sexual 
intercourse for those aged 16 
and over. The discrepancy in 
the law between men and 
women dates back to 19th 
century England when Queen 
Victoria, backed by Britain’s 
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protest banner at the State Opening of Parliament. 


Supporters for a reduction 
in the age of consent for ho¬ 
mosexuals say Britain has the 
highest age of consent in Eu¬ 
rope. 

They argue that balancing 
the age with that of hetero¬ 
sexuals will make it easier for 
gay men to accept their sexu¬ 
ality and seek informed ad¬ 
vice. The also say it will 
strengthen individual respon¬ 
sibility, extend individual 
freedom, and take the crimi¬ 
nal law out of the area of per¬ 
sonal morality. 

Some government politi¬ 
cians disagree and say any 
law change will unhinge the 
government’s “back to basics” 
political program, which em¬ 
phasizes traditional values. 

“When you have young 
vulnerable 16-year-old boys 
being pressurized by un¬ 
scrupulous older men — they 
need protecting,” said Conser¬ 
vative Party lawmaker Olga 
Maitland. 

“Teenagers aren’t always 
certain of their own sexuali¬ 
ty,” she told reporters. “If 


Oscar Wilde, who was aware 
of the attractions of younger 
men, was quoted in Britain's 
age of consent debate: "You 
cannot make men moral by 
law." 


they are pressurized to take 
part in a homosexual act and 
it’s not their nature you can 
have a very disturbed young 
person, a very troubled young 
person.” ▼ 


Brit Docs Say: Let 
16-Year-01ds Be Gay 


by Simona de Logu 

LONDON (UPI) - The 
British Medical Association, 
expressing concern about 
HIV transmission among 
teenage males, announced 
Thursday, January 13, it was 
endorsing a campaign to low¬ 
er the age of homosexual con¬ 
sent to 16 in hopes of improv¬ 
ing sexual health counseling 
for young males. 

A group of lawmakers 
launched the campaign 
Wednesday to lower the age 
of consent to 16 from the cur¬ 
rent 21. The age of consent 
for heterosexuals is currently 
16, and lesbians are covered 
by the same laws because 
Victorian-era lawmakers re¬ 
fused to believe they existed 
and wrote no laws to cover 
them. [See accompanying sto¬ 
ry. 1 

“What we are most con- 
cerned about is HIV,” said Dr. 
Fleur Fasher, head of the 
medical association’s ethics 
and science division. “Because 
of the state of the law, it is 
difficult for health education, 
health promotion, to be made 
available [to teenage males].” 

Medical association doctors 
said the decriminalization of 
homosexuality between ages 
16 and 21 would allow doc¬ 
tors and health authorities to 
provide more effective health 
care, health education and 
counseling for homosexuals 
in that age group. 

The British Medical Asso¬ 


ciation council voted almost 
unanimously Wednesday 
night to recommend the gov¬ 
ernment lower the age of con¬ 
sent to 16. 

In taking the action, the 
council noted that unsafe sex¬ 
ual behavior and HIV infec¬ 
tion have both increased 
among homosexual men after 
a period of decline. The coun¬ 
cil noted that recent figures 
for new HIV transmissions 
show that younger males are 
disproportionately affected. 

A statement said the coun¬ 
cil is concerned that the “cur¬ 
rent criminalization of homo¬ 
sexual activity inhibits effec¬ 
tive health education and 
health care.” 

The council based its deci¬ 
sion on a survey by the Board 
of Science and Education. 
The survey showed the aver¬ 
age age for the first homosex¬ 
ual encounter is 15.7 years. It 
also showed that homosexual 
orientation, which is estab¬ 
lished before puberty, leads 
to homosexual behavior and 
not vice versa. 

The council concluded 
from this that lowering the 
age of consent to 16 would be 
unlikely to affect the number 
of men engaging in homosex¬ 
ual activity, either in general 
or within specific age groups. 

There was no convincing 
medical reason against lower¬ 
ing the age of consent for ho¬ 
mosexuals to 16, the council 
said, but to do so would yield 
positive health benefits. ▼ 


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Philadelphia 

(Continued from page 1) 
the case. Les Fagen, of Paul 
Weiss Rifkind Wharton & 
Garrison, represented Baker 
& McKenzie in the hearings. 

“The firm did not fire 
Bowers because of his condi¬ 
tion, it fired him on the mer¬ 
its of performance,” says Fa¬ 
gen. 

The judge in the case dis¬ 
agreed. According to testimo¬ 
ny, Bowers’s performance 
was strong during his brief 
tenure with the firm, and his 
salary increased by more than 
50 percent in his two years 
with Baker & McKenzie. As 
late as May, 1986, the firm re¬ 
viewed Bowers’s performance 
and chose to retain him. But 
at the July, 1986, meeting 
where the partners voted to 
terminate Bowers’s employ¬ 
ment, his work performance 
was never even reviewed, as 
was standard firm procedure 
for attorneys facing possible 
termination. Bowers’s imme¬ 
diate supervisor protested the 
decision to fire him, arguing 
that he was vital to the firm; 
he succeeded only in delaying 
the termination by a few 
months. By this point, Bow¬ 
ers’s facial lesions were se¬ 
vere. 

As the Division of Human 
Rights Executive Deputy 
Commissioner Lynne Weikart 
wrote in the decision: “There 
is no evidence to indicate 
[Bowers’s] work performance 
deteriorated between the 
May, 1986, evaluation meeting 
and July, 1986. However, the 
record shows that during this 
period [Bowers’s] facial le¬ 
sions progressively wors¬ 
ened.” 

“The decision turns on a 
finding by the Division that 
the firm knew of Bowers’s 
condition at the time it termi¬ 
nated him. The evidence does 
not show that,” Fagen argues. 
“He certainly did not disclose 
it. 

“There’s no debate here 
that under the rules, you’re 
not supposed to discriminate 
against somebody because 
they have AIDS,” Fagen con¬ 
tinues. “That’s not an issue, 
and there’s no precedent¬ 
breaking thing about that.” 

Felber does not seem sur¬ 
prised by Fagen’s remarks. 
“That position is obviously 
one he has to take, but it’s not 
going to carry the day,” says 
Felber. “They chose in de¬ 
fending this case to say that 
they never perceived or ob¬ 
served any manifestation of 
any illness, and therefore 
they didn’t know he had 
AIDS, and therefore they 
didn’t discriminate against 
him. They called almost ev¬ 
ery partner, associate, and 
staff person in the firm, in ex¬ 
cess of 65 witnesses. They all 
lock-step testified that they 
never saw anything wrong 
with Geoffrey. The problem 
with that defense is that it did 
not take into consideration 
the objective, non-biased testi¬ 
mony of photographs taken at 
the time, or of doctors whose 
notes reflect what he looked 
like.” 

By the time he was dis¬ 
missed, Bowers had K.S. le¬ 
sions clearly visible on his 
face, according to the testimo¬ 
ny of his doctors. But Baker 
& McKenzie’s witnesses all 
testified that they had not no¬ 
ticed. 

“When you take the objec¬ 
tive, non-biased testimony of 
what he looked like at the 
time and juxtapose it on all 
these witnesses who came in 
like robots and said ‘We never 
saw anything,”’ says Felber, “I 
think the judge and the com¬ 


missioner said that if you’re 
making this a credibility con¬ 
test, we find that your position 
is unbelievable, and since you 
apparently lied about all of 
this, you’re also lying about 
the reason for his firing.” 

An important factor in the 
case was the nature of Bow¬ 
ers’s work environment. Baker 
& McKenzie maintained that 
personal lives were not central 
to the office atmosphere, and 
that Bowers concealed his ho¬ 
mosexuality and his condition 
from his workmates. But here 
again, the judge disagreed. 

Bowers’s attorneys argued 
that the work environment at 
Baker & McKenzie was in¬ 
deed a social one, complete 
with personal relationships 
and office gossip. Both Bow¬ 
ers’s homosexuality and his 
AIDS were topics for office ru¬ 
mors, they claimed, and the 
firm’s contention that they had 
never considered the possibil¬ 
ity that Bowers might have 
AIDS rings false. Bowers’s 
sexual orientation played an 
important role in the hearings. 

“The knowldege of his sex¬ 
ual orientation gave people a 
greater ability to perceive 
what the manifestation of his 
illness was,” says Felber. 



The late Geoffrey Bowers, 
whose award in an AIDS dis¬ 
crimination suit set a record. 


Baker & McKenzie is ap¬ 
pealing the case to a court of 
law, arguing that the facts of 
the case do not support the de¬ 
cision. A judge will review the 
testimony in the Division hear¬ 
ing records — some 6,000 pages 
in three dozen volumes — and 
determine whether the deci¬ 
sion is sustainable. 

The appeal may also alter 
the amount of damages award¬ 
ed, and Fagen stresses that 
even if the decision is not 
overturned, he feels the award 
should be lessened. “This dam¬ 
age award is completely exces¬ 
sive,” he argues. “There’s no 
basis for that kind of award in 
precedent.” 

Not so, claims Margarita 
Rosa, Commissioner for the 
State of New York Division of 
Human Rights. An award of 
half a million dollars is, in fact, 
in line with previous mental 
anguish awards the Division 
has meted out. 

“In damages there’s more 
room for courts to differ with 
the agency. But we’ve had 
very large compensatory 
awards sustained in the past. It 
is our hope that this one will 
be upheld as well, but that re¬ 
mains to be seen,” says Rosa. 

By New York state law, 
Baker & McKenzie must place 
the entire settlement — in ex¬ 
cess of $600,000 including back 
pay — in escrow before pro¬ 
ceeding with the appeal. The 
money will earn interest in the 
interim, and if the award is 
upheld in court, it will be paid 
immediately to Bowers’s es¬ 
tate. 


Rosa says that Bowers’s 
case is not unique, but it was 
somewhat groundbreaking 
when it began seven years 
ago. 

“It’s not that dramatically 
new at this point in time,” she 
says. “It may have been when 
the case was first filed. It was 
one of the first few that came 
to trial in our agency, if not 
the first, that raised this issue 
very squarely.” 

Over the years, many more 
AIDS discrimination suits 
have been filed with the Divi¬ 
sion, but Rosa puts a positive 
spin on the situation by noting 
that while lawsuits are still on 
the rise, large businesses in 
particular have been changing 
policies and treating people 
with HIV more reasonably 
than they had a few years 
back. Businesses with the re¬ 
sources seem to be sensitizing 
their employees and monitor¬ 
ing their own behavior around 
AIDS. 

“I like to err on the hopeful 
side,” says Rosa. “There has 
been a growing understanding 
that one can be subject to ex¬ 
tensive liabilities. It behooves 
employers to invest some re¬ 
sources in educating them¬ 
selves and their staffs. We 
think this kind of discrimina¬ 
tion has been eliminated — 
we’re far from that. But at 
least there are some hopeful 
signs that eventually the dis¬ 
crimination, irrational conduct 
associated with fears about 
AIDS, will diminish signifi¬ 
cantly.” 

Certainly public awareness 
of AIDS as a civil rights issue 
is climbing with the sudden 
success of Philadelphia. In 
the film, Tom Hanks is dis¬ 
missed from a prestigious law 
firm after he develops K.S. le¬ 
sions on his face. As in this 
case, the firm claims ignorance 
of his condition. The firm also 
claims poor performance as 
the reason for terminating the 
employee, despite a lack of ev¬ 
idence to support the claim. 

Despite the undeniable 
similarities of Bowers’s case to 
the story in Philadelphia, Fa¬ 
gen cautions against making 
easy comparisons. 

“This case has nothing to 
do with the story presented in 
Philadelphia in terms of 
what this firm knew, what this 
firm was doing, and how this 
firm acted,” he insists. “The 
people who wrote the movie 
may well have been inspired 
by this story. I don’t know. 

‘‘Everybody feels very 
strongly about how wrong it is 
to discriminate against people 
with this condition,” he says. “I 
don’t think that’s in dispute or 
debate. The problem is that 
each case has to be evaluated 
on the facts, and you have to 
avoid becoming influenced by 
sympathy or Hollywood mo¬ 
tion picture simplicity.” 

This is perhaps the only 
point on which both sides can 
agree. Felber too downplays 
the parallels to the movie. 

“At this point we really 
want to get the message out 
about AIDS discrimination,” 
he says, “Philadelphia is a 
Hollywood movie.” 

The excitement for Felber 
was not in the Hollywood dra¬ 
ma and the media spotlight. 
The thrill was winning this 
landmark case on behalf of his 
personal friend, and emerging 
victorious over a well-respect¬ 
ed and formidable opponent. 

“It’s also a David and Go¬ 
liath thing,” says Felber. “If 
you have the truth and you 
have the facts, sometimes 
fighting against a giant like 
that is very satisfying. It’s cer¬ 
tainly nerve-racking. But we 
survived, and though delayed, 
justice has been rendered.” ▼ 












































National News 


Bowers Estate Files Suit; 
Players Respond-Sort Of 

Whose 
Story 
Is It? 

by Jim Provenzano 

As critics debate the mer¬ 
its of Philadelphia, and as gay 
and AIDS organizations raise 
funds with benefit screenings 
across the country, the estate 
of Geoffrey Bowers has filed 
a lawsuit claiming the film is 
based on his life. 

On January 31, the firm of 
Balsam & Felber, attorneys 
for Bowers’s estate and fami¬ 
ly, filed an action in U.S. Dis¬ 
trict Court for the Southern 
District of New York against 
Hollywood producer Scott 
Rudin, TriStar Pictures, Inc., 
and the creators of Philadel¬ 
phia, maintaining the film 
was substantially based on in¬ 
formation provided by them 
under the agreement that 
they would be acknowledged 
and compensated. They ask 
for damages of $10 million. 

In a Tuesday, February 1 
announcement at the New 
York offices of Balsam & Fel¬ 
ber, the lawyers claimed that 
in 1988, while Bowers was su¬ 
ing his former employers 
[see accompanying article, “A 
Real Philadelphia Story.”], 
Rudin contacted Balsam & 
Felber and said he was inter¬ 
ested in making a movie 
about AIDS based upon Bow¬ 
ers’s story. They claim that 
Rudin agreed to compensate 
and acknowledge Bowers’s es¬ 
tate, family, and attorneys. 

According to Lloyd P. 
Trufelman of Trylon Commu¬ 
nications, the public relations 
firm handling the publicity 
around this case for Balsam 
& Felber, after several meet¬ 
ings and telephone conversa¬ 
tions in which details of Bow¬ 
ers’s story were provided, 
Rudin engaged Ron Nyswan- 
er to write a screenplay based 
upon Bowers’s story. Nyswan- 
er, who is gay, is credited as 
the writer of Philadelphia. 

Rudin thereafter sold his 
rights to Bowers’s story to 
Orion Pictures, where it went 
into development under Ex¬ 
ecutive Vice President Marc 
Platt. Platt is currently presi¬ 
dent of TriStar Pictures, 
which is owned by Sony Pic¬ 
tures Entertainment. In De¬ 
cember 1991, TriStar ac¬ 
quired Orion’s rights to. 
Bowers’s story in bankruptcy 
court. 

After reading articles in 
1992 about a movie being 
made by TriStar about a 
lawyer fired for having AIDS 
(then called Probable Cause), 
Balsam & Felber contacted 
Rudin. Rudin acknowledged 
that the movie was based 
upon the Bowers story, the 
rights to which he had sold, 
and referred them to Platt. 

Bowers’s attorneys in¬ 
formed Platt of the history of 
the relationship between the 
plaintiffs, Rudin, Nyswaner 
and TriStar, and noted that 
the information obtained by 
Rudin formed a substantial 
basis for the content and 
structure of the movie. Ac¬ 
cording to Trufelman, “Key 
scenes and dialogue taken 
from Bowers’s story which 
appeared in Philadelphia are 


documented in detail in the 
20-page complaint.” Platt re¬ 
portedly never responded to 
Bowers’s attorneys, ignored 
requests for information, and 
avoided any further discus¬ 
sions with them. 

Bowers’s attorneys say 
Philadelphia’s content is 
“wholly unauthorized” and 
that it “constitutes a breach of 
contract, misappropriation of 
confidential and proprietary 
information, a violation of 
federal law [prohibiting false 
designation of origin and de¬ 
ceptive trade practices] and 
unjust enrichment.” 

According to Trufelman, 
the long wait was at the deci¬ 
sion of Bowers’s mother, who 
only saw the film a few 
weeks ago, then gave the go- 
ahead for the lawsuit. Up to 
then, the family’s concerns 
had been with the impending 
results of their lawsuit against 
Bowers’s former employer. 



Philadelphia director 
Jonathan Demme — in the 
dark? 


“Someone with linkage to 

TriStar approached the fami¬ 
ly. That’s the very clear dif¬ 
ference.” 

That linkage is Scott 
Rudin, a gay producer who 
brought screenwriter Ron 
Nyswaner into the picture. 
Rudin and Nyswaner refused 
to comment by press time, de¬ 
spite repeated requests by the 
B.A.R. 

Yet despite the possible 
believability of the attorneys’ 
claims, up until even last 
week (see other story), Bal¬ 
sam & Felber denied any 
connection between the film 
and the Bowers case. 

Trufelman explains: “We 
had known all along that it 
may have something to do 
with it. If anybody pushed on 
the linkage, we had to be 
diplomatic about it.” And al¬ 
though the attorneys are ask¬ 
ing for ten million dollars, 
they do not consider the mon¬ 
ey to be the primary goal. 
“The family would like to see 
the film dedicated to the 
memory of Geoffrey Bowers 
or at least get some acknowl¬ 
edgment,” he said. 

If Philadelphia is making 
inroads, the attorneys argue, 
then why can’t they acknowl¬ 
edge a real-life case of AIDS 
discrimination for what it 
may be, the very source of 
their very financially success¬ 
ful film? Said Trufelman, 
“One of the brothers said 
‘They took my brother’s sto¬ 
ry.’” 

Will the producers ac¬ 
knowledge that? Or will Tom 
Hanks, and possibly Nyswan¬ 
er and Demme, step up to the 
podium and accept Oscars for 
a story stolen from a dead 
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Sony, which owns TriStar, 
denies any wrongdoing, but it 
also denies even receiving the 
documents serving them with 
the lawsuit. As of February 1, 
Trufelman said the docu¬ 
ments had been sent to Sony 
Pictures by Federal Express. 

Ed Russell, senior vict 
president of Publicity and 
Promotion for Los Angeles- 
based Sony Pictures, denied 
Balsam & Felber’s claims 
with this press statement: “Al¬ 
though we have not been 
served with this lawsuit, the 
film Philadelphia is not the 
story of Geoffrey Bowers. 
Philadelphia is a fictional sto¬ 
ry which addresses a regretta¬ 
ble recurring theme of AIDS 
discrimination in this coun¬ 
try.” He said that “TriStar 
Pictures is very proud of 
Philadelphia. There is no 
merit to the lawsuit, and we 
are confident we will be vin¬ 
dicated in this matter.” 

The estate of Geoffrey 
Bowers obviously disagrees, 
although Trufelman said that 
he was unsure of the trail of 
culpability — who knew 
where the story came from — 
or even whether that included 
director Jonathan Demme 
and star Tom Hanks. 

“Maybe Demme was in the 
dark,” he said, but “clearly 
something was sold to Orion. 

Trufelman said that his 
clients have specific claims re¬ 
garding their case. “There are 
certain scenes from the movie 
that mirror Bowers’s story,” 
he said. “Bowers was asked in 
court to show his KS lesions. 
The last weekend before 
Bowers died he had a party. 
Bowers lived in a loft. There 
are too many instances which 
match the Bowers case.” 

Trufelman stressed that it 
was not as if the estate mere¬ 
ly claimed their story was tak¬ 
en from newspaper articles or 
other public information. 



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Researchers have 
reported identification 
of the Mycobacterium 
tuberculosis (TB) gene 
responsible for drug 
resistance to the “front 
line” anti-TB drug iso- 
niazid (INH). The dis¬ 
covery, published in 
the January 14th issue 
of Science magazine, 
was reported by a 
team of researchers 
led by Dr. William Ja¬ 
cobs of Albert Ein¬ 
stein Medical College 
in New York. The 
news was greeted 
warmly by public 
health officials, who 
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quer drug-resistant TB strains 
— and relieve public concern 
that the TB epidemic cannot 
be controlled, in the face of 
strains of TB resistant to 
more than one drug. 



The discovery may also 
prove significant in the devel¬ 
opment of new drugs against 
another microorganism — My¬ 
cobacterium avium complex 
(MAC) — which is often lethal 
to individuals suffering from 
late stages of the AIDS syn¬ 
drome. 

Under normal circum¬ 
stances, 96-98 percent of indi¬ 
viduals infected with TB can 
be cured by adhering to the 
standard short-course chemo¬ 
therapeutic regimen — INH, 
rifampin, and pyrazinamide. 
Cure rates appear to be simi¬ 
lar in HIV-seropositive indi¬ 
viduals. But the odds of sur¬ 
vival decrease for individuals 
infected with strains of TB re¬ 
sistant to two or more drugs; 
infection by these strains is 
lethal in 40-60 percent of all 
cases. 

AIDS-stricken individuals 
infected by resistant strains of 
TB are 1.7 times more likely 
to die — 80 percent vs. 47 per¬ 
cent — than those infected by 
drug-susceptible organisms, 
and the time from diagnosis 
to death is dramatically short¬ 
ened. 

In 1991, 333 individuals in 
San Francisco were diag¬ 


nosed with TB; 20 percent 
were HIV-positive. In New 
York, 33 percent of the indi¬ 
viduals infected with TB 
were resistant to at least one 
drug; 19 percent were found 
to be resistant to both INH 
and rifampin. 

Isolating the drug targets 

Isoniazid was synthesized 
in 1912, but wasn’t used as a 
chemotherapeutic agent until 
40 years later, when it be¬ 
came an essential component 
of a successful anti-TB drug 
strategy that ended the quar¬ 
antining of TB-stricken indi¬ 
viduals and the sanatorium 
era. Ironically, it wasn’t until 
1992 that microbiologists got 
an inkling of how this drug 
worked! 

According to the research 
team at Albert Einstein Med¬ 
ical College, INH appears to 
block the biosynthesis of my- 
colic acid, a fatty acid that is 
an essential component of the 
cell wall of all mycobacteria 
(A. Banergee and others, Sci¬ 
ence 263:227-230 [1994]). Re¬ 
searchers hope that by further 
characterizing the biochemi¬ 
cal pathway of mycolic acid 
biosynthesis, and by pinpoint¬ 
ing the precise mechanism by 
which INH blocks this pro¬ 
cess, they will “open the door 
of discovery” to a new gener¬ 
ation of INH-like inhibitors. 

This discovery follows on 
the heels of an important ob¬ 
servation by Zhang and oth¬ 
ers (Nature 358:591-593 [1992]) 
at Hammersmith Hospital in 
London and Institute Pasteur 
in Paris: they proved that a 
gene (katG) encoding the en¬ 
zyme catalase-peroxidase in 
M. tuberculosis was linked to 
INH resistance. Researchers 
now think that catalase either 
activates or concentrates INH, 
which is actively “imported” 
into the cellular compartment 
of this microorganism. 

Quick diagnostic technology 

With these discoveries in 
hand, researchers are now op¬ 
timistic that strains of tuber¬ 
culosis resistant to INH can 
be quickly identified in the 
clinic using a new diagnostic 
tool, the polymerase chain re¬ 
action (PCR) technique. By us¬ 
ing PCR, scientists can ampli¬ 
fy and identify exceedingly 
small quantities of DNA. 
Variants of the two genes re¬ 
sponsible for INH drug resis¬ 
tance, inhA and katG, can be 
easily distinguished from the 


normal gene counter¬ 
parts which are sus¬ 
ceptible to isoniazid 
chemotherapy. This 
breakthrough should 
reduce the time it 
takes to detect antibi¬ 
otic resistance in an 
infected individual 
from 3-12 weeks to 
several hours! Physi¬ 
cians will be able to 
modify the chemo¬ 
therapeutic regimen 
accordingly. 

Incidence of drug 
resistance in HIV- 
positives 

The incidence of 
TB drug resistance 
in HIV-positive indi¬ 
viduals infected with 
TB is significantly 
higher than in indi¬ 
viduals without HIV infec¬ 
tion: in one study, 34 percent 
of the individuals suffering 
from full-blown AIDS were 
resistant to one or more anti- 
TB drugs, as compared to 18 
percent of the individuals not 
suffering from AIDS. Thirty 
percent of the HIV seroposi- 
tives were resistant to more 


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of individuals 
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pared to 18 percent of the in¬ 
dividuals without HIV infec¬ 
tion (T. Freiden and others, 
New England Journal of 
Medicine 328:521-526 [1993]). 

These observations sup¬ 
port the contention that im¬ 
munity plays a very impor¬ 
tant role in limiting progres¬ 
sion of drug resistant TB in 
immunocompetent individu¬ 
als. Conversely, without effec¬ 
tive therapeutic regimens to 
control life-threatening drug 
resistant TB organisms, more 
rapid clinical progression to 
active drug resistant TB infec¬ 
tion can be expected in im¬ 
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Health News 


Some things are better... 


Elders Educates Senators about 
Adolescent Sexuality, Health Needs 



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and controversial surgeon general. Dr. Joycelyn Elders. 


United Press International 

WASHINGTON - Sur¬ 
geon General Joycelyn Elders 
urged Congress Wednesday, 
January 26, to include a com¬ 
prehensive school health edu¬ 
cation program and school- 
based health care services in 
the health care reform plan 
they draft. 

Testifying before a House 
Education and Labor subcom¬ 
mittee, Elders said President 
Clinton’s health care reform 
plan — one of many Congress 
will consider — would allow 
schools to provide health care 
to poor children and adoles¬ 
cents. 

Elders, citing congression¬ 
al statistics, said adolescents 
make up the most medically 
underserved age group in the 
United States. The presi¬ 
dent’s Health Security Act 
would provide federal assis¬ 
tance to schools or communi¬ 
ties with a high rate of pover¬ 
ty or other risk factors, in¬ 
cluding drug abuse, she said. 

Congress also should pass 
a health care reform plan pro¬ 
viding comprehensive health 
care education, she said, not¬ 
ing only about half of the na¬ 
tion’s ninth grade students, 
and less than five percent of 
high school juniors and se¬ 
niors, receive any health edu¬ 
cation at school. 

“For children and adoles¬ 
cents, the leading health prob¬ 
lems are from causes that are 
largely preventable: injuries — 
both violent and unintention¬ 


al — unintended pregnancies, 
STDs [sexually-transmitted 
diseases] including AIDS, and 
substance abuse,” she said. 

The Education and Labor 
Committee is one of three 
House committees (including 
Ways and Means and Energy 
and Commerce) with jurisdic¬ 
tion over health care reform. 

There are other, non-finan- 
cial barriers, however, that 
also affect adolescents, she 
said, including concerns about 
confidentiality, culture or eth¬ 
nic barriers, and general ap¬ 
prehension about discussing 
health problems — or denial 
that a problem exists. 

The former secretary of 
health for Arkansas, Elders 
said communities there wide¬ 
ly accepted her school-based 
clinic idea. The difficulty, she 
said, was agreeing on the 
kind of services the clinics 
should provide, including con¬ 


dom distribution for AIDS 
and pregnancy prevention. 

“We found out that once a 
school went through the pro¬ 
cess of applying for a clinic 
and got their clinic on site, 
they could see the important 
needs the clinic fulfilled for 
their students,” she said. 

The president’s plan would 
authorize $100 million begin¬ 
ning in fiscal year 1996 to sup¬ 
port planning and implemen¬ 
tation grants to states and lo¬ 
cal communities for school-re¬ 
lated health services. 

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when she suggested the gov¬ 
ernment should study the pos¬ 
sibility of legalizing drugs as 
a way to fight crime. Presi¬ 
dent Clinton, who said during 
his presidential campaign he 
opposed the idea of legalizing 
drugs, made clear he dis¬ 
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ders said Friday, January 21, 
the government has no plans 
to pull television ads encour¬ 
aging the use of condoms, 
and she defended federal 
health care reform proposals 
that would cover abortions. 

Elders said the teaching of 
sexual abstinence alone is not 
enough to protect young peo¬ 
ple from unwanted pregnan¬ 
cies, AIDS, and other sexual¬ 
ly transmitted diseases. 

“We all want our children 
to be abstinent. We all want 
to teach our children absti¬ 
nence,” she said. “But you 
can’t walk in there and give 
an abstinence lecture. You’ve 
got to start early to [teach] 
children how to feel good 
about themselves, teaching 
them how to make decisions, 
teaching them about alcohol, 
drugs, and AIDS. It has to be 
comprehensive. I don’t be¬ 
lieve you can teach just a sex 
class.” 

Appearing at a news con¬ 
ference at the First United 
Methodist Church, Elders 
said there was “absolutely no 
data whatsoever” that shows 
promiscuity results from 
teaching young people about 
condom use. She added that 
some studies even show that 
it has led to the postpone¬ 
ment of sexual activity. 

Elders also said the ads 
are less sensational than 


many other things that chil¬ 
dren can see on national tele¬ 
vision at almost any time. 

“We have no intention of 
pulling the condom ads,” she 
said. “Unless you have a dif¬ 
ferent kind of TV in Austin 
than I have in Washington, 
D.C., there’s everything on 
TV, and those condom ads 
look like, in fact, they’re al¬ 
most better than Saturday 
morning comics.” 

Elders, who was greeted 
by a handful of anti-abortion 
protesters at the opening of a 
new Planned Parenthood fa¬ 
cility, also defended national 
health care reform proposals 
that will cover abortions. 

“Reproductive health is a 
part of the president’s health 
care plan,” she said. 

Elders was asked how she 
would respond to people who 
oppose abortion and who 
may object to paying into a 
health care system that funds 
the procedure. 

“I object to spending $33 
million an hour building 
bombers that we don’t need. I 
object to all the war and 
killing,” she said. “So there 
are a lot of things I object to 
that we spend our money for. 

“We really spend very lit¬ 
tle on abortion. We spend $26 
billion a year [on welfare] 
keeping them poor, ignorant 
and slaves at a time when we 
don’t need any more slaves. 
So as far as I’m concerned, 
why should I continue to do 
that?”V 




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Obituaries 


Scott K. Boin 


Sept. 18, 1962-Jan. 21, 1994 



Scott is at peace now after a long, 
brave battle with 
AIDS. His winn¬ 
ing smile and 
bright blue eyes 
will be with us 
always. At age 
31, Scott leaves 
on earth his 
partner-in-life, 
Mark Manz; and 
his parents, Karl 
and Ruth Boin; 
brother, Michael; 
and a lot of loving and caring friends in 
California, Maryland and Wisconsin. 

“God looked around his garden and 
found an empty space. He then looked 
upon the earth and saw your tired face. 
He put his arms around you to rest. 


God’s garden must be beautiful; he 
always takes the best. 

“He knew that you were suffering. He 
knew you were in pain. He knew that 
you would never get well on earth 
again. He saw the road was rough. The 
hills hard to climb. So he closed your 
weary eyelids and whispered, ‘Peace be 
thine.’ 

“It broke our hearts to lose you, but 
you don’t go alone. For part of us went 
with you, the day God called you home.” 

I love you, Schnookums. You’ll 
always be with me. 

A memorial will be held at Mark and 
Scott’s home on Feb. 12,1994, from 1 to 
4 p.m. For more information please call 
Mark at 824-8307. 

In lieu of flowers, please send dona¬ 
tions in memory of Scott Boin to: 
American Foundation for AIDS 
Research, 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los 
Angeles, CA 90036-5032. Also, please 
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Richard D. Calmbacher 


April 14, 1947-Jan. 9, 1994 


There is a man I know who has a way 
ggof illuminating 
III lives by merely 
| being in them. 

I On Sunday, Jan- 
I uary 9, due to 
I complications 
I from AIDS, that 
I man, Richard 
I Calmbacher, left 
world of 
§ friends and lov- 
| ed ones to join 
1 those friends he 
had helped and cared for over the years. 
Richard touched the lives of many 



people in many different ways — from 
his participation in a number of 
organizations in San Jose including Gay 
Pride Celebration, Oktoberfest, Mayor’s 
Council, and San Jose Tavern Guild to 
his legendary bar parties as manager of 
the Boot Rack and Main Street. As a 
friendly face behind the bar, he was 
always there to talk with old friends and 
make newcomers feel as if they had 
known him forever. His ability to bring 
out the best in everyone and make you 
laugh will always be remembered. His 
famous lines: “Men are dirt” and 
“Where’s my husband?” will ring in our 
ears forever. 

He was born in Wheeling, West 
Virginia, and spent time in many dif¬ 
ferent parts of the country. His favorite 
places that he called home were New 
Orleans and San Jose. In a way, New 
Orleans typifies the person and the 
spirit that was Richard. Fun-loving, 
wild, crazy, always open, but full of love. 

Richard leaves behind his loving and 
understanding mother, Lillian; his 
brother, Walt; and many nieces and 
nephews, as well as his many friends. 
For all of us left, we will miss you great¬ 
ly, but being a part of your life and hav¬ 
ing your memory as a part of ours will 
make us all a little better off. 

At his request, no formal memorial 
service will be held, but a celebration 
of Richard’s life will be held on Sunday, 
February 6, at 3:30 p.m. at the 641 Club 
in San Jose. Donations in his name may 
be given to the San Jose Gay Pride 
Celebration at 45 N. 1st St., Box 89, San 
Jose, CA 95113. V 


Abel Chavez 

1941-1994 


Abel left us on January 29,1994, after 
a brave, stub¬ 
born struggle 
with KS and 
lymphoma. He 
is survived by 
his loving sister, 
Martha Perez, 
and his brothers, 
Tony and Abe. 

Highly decora¬ 
ted in the Navy, 
Abel will even¬ 
tually rest in the 
National Cemetery with full honors. 
Rest in peace, Abel. We all miss you, 
especially Penny. V 



Charles Burns Emerson 
("Chuck") 

Feb. 20, 1950-Jan. 24, 1994 

Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, on 
February 20, 1950, and raised in 
Houston, Texas, Chuck died Monday, 
January 24, 1994, in his treasured San 
Francisco home in the company of his 
beloved sister, Ann Elliot Emerson, and 
nephews, Will and Charlie McBride, 
and close friends. 

Chuck graduated from The Fountain 
Valley School in Colorado Springs, Col¬ 
orado, and received his BA from The 
University of Redlands. He lived in Los 
Angeles before moving to San Fran¬ 
cisco in 1976. He had been a top real 
estate agent in this city, most notably 
and happily for the past 10 years with 
Hartford Properties. He also worked as 
a writer, publishing travel pieces in 
various newspapers and magazines. 

Chuck was generous with his energy 
and resources both with friends and 
family, and to various organizations, in¬ 
cluding Project Open Hand, Big 
Brothers, Big Sisters and the AIDS 
Hotline. His great humor, style and 
generosity will be sorely missed by his 
family and devoted friends. 

There will be a celebration of Chuck’s 
life on Saturday, February 5, at 1:30 p.m. 
at the San Francisco Zen Center, 300 
Page St. Following his wishes, Chuck’s 
family requests that in lieu of flowers, 
contributions be made in his name to 
the American Cancer Society of San 
Francisco, 235 Montgomery St., Suite 
320, San Francisco, CA 94104. ▼ 



Paul Grappe 

Aug. 16, 1954-Jan. 15, 1994 

My intimate companion of 12 years 
;sed away ac- 
1 cidentally at his 
I (Duboce Triangle) 

I home. Paul mov- 
I ed to San Fran- 
I cisco in 1976 
I from Louisana, 

* where he is sur- 
| vived by his lov- 
■ ing mother, Bar- 
I bara, and 12 
sisters and 
,,//$■ brothers. 

An admirer of personalities such as 
Patti Smith, Etta James, Edith Massey, 
and Janis (Joplin), he was, like them, one 
of those rare larger-than-life beings one 
meets once in a lifetime. 

Paul was a professionally trained, 
highly accomplished string bassist; he 
performed and recorded with groups 
from New Orleans to San Francisco, in¬ 
cluding a stint on Saturday Night Live. 

His varied talents led to a career in 
advertising at Macy’s and most recent¬ 
ly at the Oakland Post. 

Paul will be missed by many, in¬ 
cluding Ben and several employees of 
the Stud Bar, his favorite place to par¬ 
ty, and other friends including Rod. 

I will never forget Paul’s smile, his 
laugh, his love and his individuality. I 
miss him so much. Paul, your spirit will 


Lawrence Payne 

Sept. 20, 1952 - Jan. 29, 1994 

On Saturday, January 29, 1994, the 
man with whom I entered the world 
with over 41 years ago, my twin, 

Lawrence, succumbed to AIDS. 

Lawrence was a very special and uni¬ 
que individual. He is survived by his 
soulmate and partner in life, Tim 
Bollinger; by myself, his twin, Lon¬ 
nie; and by our family, Joel, Chris, 

Ron and Marcus. 

Lawrence’s life consisted of many 
unique experiences that he shared with a variety of people. 
His special love of music and dance was the foundation for 
many a friendship and bonding within our community. As this 
disease chipped away at his life, his knowledge of living with 
AIDS increased. He gladly shared this knowledge with others 
afflicted with this disease. 

We would like to thank the wonderful staff and volunteers 
at Ralph K. Davies and at Hospice by the Bay for the special 
kindness given Lawrence. A very special thank you to Lisa, 
his doctor, and Maurice, his Hospice by the Bay nurse. Their 
care and concern helped make my brother’s departure a 
gentler experience. 

We, the family of Lawrence, will celebrate his life with a 
private remembrance. 

Donations may be made in Lawrence’s name to Hospice by 
the Bay. T 



always remain with me — sometimes 
with great joy, other times with great 
sorrow. We will always be together. I 
love you — Gene. V 


Robert (Bobby) Hawthorn 

January 8, 1994 

Robert (Bobby) Hawthorn moved 
from Pittsburgh, 
Penn., to reside 
here in 1975. 
Robert passed 
away on January 
8, 1994, at his 
home on Noe 
Street in the 
ceaseless care of 
his niece, Marie, 
and friends, Em¬ 
mett and Linda. 
In the last 
moments of Robert’s life, his brothers, 
Jesse and William, and their wives came 
from the East Coast to be with him. His 
nephews, Joey, Robert (his namesake) 
and Joshua, brought their love for their 
Uncle Butch to his bedside, as well as 
their mother, Marie, who Robert helped 
raise and who shared many of his 
thoughts. 

Robert leaves many friends in this 
world who will always remember him 
for his infectious enthusiasm. His career 
took him from hair salons in the ’70s 
and ’80s to the front reception desk at 
Petit and Martin, until his disability 
caused him to step aside in 1992. He also 
volunteered his considerable talents to 
the Young Turks Theatre group as a 
hair designer, in addition to offering his 
services for the San Francisco AIDS 
Walk and Dance-a-Thon. 

In accordance with Robert’s last 
wishes, a celebration of his life will take 
place on Saturday, February 19, at the 
Unitarian Church at noon. ▼ 

Marius Houtman 

May 9,1939-Jan. 23,1994 

At 10 am. on January 23, Marius died 
at Sequoia Hos¬ 
pital in Red¬ 
wood City of 
complications 
associated with 
AIDS. Born in 
Rotterdam in the 
Netherlands, 
Marius lived in 
Montreal for 
many years be¬ 
fore moving to 
Mexico City. He 
returned to Canada for a few years and 
in 1984 moved to the Bay Area. He 
worked in accounting for Providence 
Hospital in Oakland and had been 
working for The Sharper Image before 
going on disability. 

He is survived by his lover of 14 years, 
Gaetan Rouleau; his parents; brothers, 
Kees, Henk and Gerard living in 
Holland; John in Montreal; and many 
dear and loving friends. 

Marius loved art, music and nature. 
He valued both the simple and the ec¬ 
centric, but above all, Marius respected 
and loved life. We will all miss his high 
degree of integrity, his sense of humor 
and honesty. His talent for decorating 
was unquestionable, and all of us who 
knew him know that by now he has 
already started embellishing his new 
home. 

Marius, our lives will never be the 
same without you. My only consolation 
is that one day I will join you forever. 
Be at peace, for I will love you always. 

All donations should be sent to Pro¬ 
ject Open Hand, 2720 17th Street, SF 
94110. ▼ 

Joseph "Mike" Rogers 

January 7, 1994 

Our special friend Mike died on 
January 7, sur¬ 
rounded by his 
loving family in 
Colorado 
Springs, after a 
mercifully brief 
battle with the 
AIDS virus. 

During Mike’s 
12 years in the 
dty, he worked 
at the Badlands 
bar as a barten¬ 
der, but is best known as the owner of 
SF Floormaster, a floor refinishing 
company he ran until his death. 

He will be remembered for his quick 
wit, dashing good looks, easy smile, and 
love of San Francisco. The many 
friends he leaves behind will miss this 
very special soul. 

You made life special in a very special 
place. God bless and see you in the fun¬ 
ny papers. ▼ 





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Obituaries 


Denis Patrick 
Heatherington 

Feb. 27, 1955-Jan. 27,1994 



Born in McKeesport, Penn., Denis 
knew at an early age he wanted to pur¬ 
sue his dreams 
elsewhere. 

After receiv¬ 
ing his B.A. from 
Clarion Univer¬ 
sity, he moved to 
Denver, Colo., 
where his vast 
knowledge in 
sound and light¬ 
ing techniques 
earned him the 
nickname “Wiz¬ 


ard” from his peers. 

Pursuing the nightclub circuit, he 
worked side by side with such notables 
as Tina Turner, the Fifth Dimension 
and Bill Cosby, to name a few. 

Denis moved to San Francisco in the 
early ’80s, where he turned a hobby into 
a new career, working as a chef in many 
notable San Francisco restaurants over 
the next 13 years. 

In 1984 Denis met the love of his life, 
Poul-Kevin Beauford, whom he main¬ 
tained a friendship with until his death. 

Survivors include his mother, Anna 
Mae; three sisters, Dolores, June, and 
Pat; and one brother, Ray. Denis was 
preceded in death by his father, Rea. 

Denis also leaves an extended fami¬ 
ly: Jim and John, Garth, David, and, of 
course, Poul-Kevin. 

Denis will be buried in McKeesport, 
Penn., next to his beloved grandfather 
at a later date. For more information 
contact Bruce Kraus at 8614076. God 
speed, dear friend! ▼ 


Brian Lee Korneke 

March 16,1953-Jan. 24,1994 
On Monday, January 24, our dear 
friend Brian 
read the last 
lines from his 
own personal 
play. AIDS com¬ 
plications took 
him to a better 
place. Born on 
March 16, 1953, 
in St. 

Petersburg, 
Florida, Brian 
was a longtime 
resident of San Francisco. Brian work¬ 
ed for Wells Fargo and did a number of 
radio plays for a Berkeley radio station. 
He read extensively and everyone knew 
him as a “party person.” Brian is sur¬ 
vived by his sister, Terry Stefaniak of 
Aurora, Colorado, and close friend of 13 
years, Freddie (Cakes) Tercero of San 
Francisco. Freddie and another friend, 
Kevin McCarthy of San Francisco, will 
keep a promise and see that Brian’s 
ashes are scattered on the Bay. So long, 
dear friend. We will miss you. ▼ 

James Calvin Kencht 
(aka Motorcycle Jimmy) 

Oct. 8,1959-Oct. 13,1993 
Bang! That was the sound of Jimmy 
passing into the 
white light, stan¬ 
ding on the seat 
of his K-Z1000 
doing 155 mph 
on the Bay 
Bridge. Bang, 
baby, bang! 

Jimmy left us 
just after his 34th 
birthday. It was 
important to Jim¬ 
my to return to 
New York to renew family ties and to 
be with his loved ones. 

Jimmy was also a jack of all trades. He 
could fix anything — cars, motorcycles, 
you name it. 

He was a topnotch paramedic, as well 
as a bartender at the Pendulum and the 
N-Touch. His temper and attitude could 
snap nails, but his heart was as big as 
the whole Bay Area and then some. 
Patrons of the Bear and N-Touch miss 
him dearly. Y 

Wilson Soares Liberal 

Oct. 12, 1947-July 1, 1989 

Willie was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

In 1973 he mov¬ 
ed to New York 
City. He was a 
vivacious man 
whose enchan¬ 
ting presence 
captivated one 
immediately. His 
greatest joy was 
to be surrounded 
by those he lov¬ 
ed, and he was 
gifted with the 
ability to give of himself, making each 





person feel they held a special place in 
his heart. He loved life passionately and 
struggled courageously to keep his life. 

In 1988 after several agonizing bouts 
with AIDS, he moved to San Francisco 
with his lover Tom, so that Tom could 
obtain better care for him. When death 
appeared to be imminent, his mother 
and sister were called in Sao Paulo, and 
booked a flight to San Francisco. His 
mother remained in San Francisco car¬ 
ing for him with Tom until Willie’s 
death. 

Willie is survived by his mother, 
Neuza Soares Liberal; a sister, Neuza 
Liberal Stegun; and a nephew, Fabiano 
Liberal Stegun; all of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

A requiem Mass was offered at the 
Episcopal Church of St. John the 
Evangelist in his memory and for his 
family and friends that mourn. For fur¬ 
ther details call Gary at 255-1217. Y 


Philip Lynn Manly 

Jan. 19,1951-Jan. 28,1994 
Philip died on Jan. 28 at California 
Pacific Hospital 
from AIDS-re¬ 
lated complica¬ 
tions. 

Philip —sweet 
prince; precious, 
gentle soul; good 
son; real friend; 
generous, always 
giving more than 
you took; affec¬ 
ting all whose 
life you touched; 
lover of all beauty; unconditional in 
your love; delightful; playful; tasteful; 
traveler; artist; always seeing the best 
in each of us. 

You have left us, but you will never 
be forgotten. We love you — Your 
friends and family. 

For more information, call Willy 
Wilson at (415) 826-8269. Donations can 
be made to: Proyecto Contra SIDA por 
Vida (864-7278), 3690-18th St., SF, CA 
94110. Y 


"Stevie" Young Tae Oh 

“Stevie” Young Tae Oh has been 
taken from us. His charm and smile will 
be with us always. Many will miss you; 
you are always in our hearts. Goodbye. 

Mr. Oh is survived by his wife and 
three-year-old daughter. Y 

Charles "Spot" Prongos 

Dec. 24, 1951-Jan. 15,1994 
Born on December 24,1951, Charles 
died on January 15, 1994, ready for his 
next journey, diaries was creative, 
bright, willful and always full of 
himself. He was a lover of life, musical 
comedy, and crosses. Charles will be 
remembered by his four sisters, Diane, 
Barbara, Jenny and Patti, and his many 
friends. God bless you on your journey, 
dear Charles. Y 

Dwight Nelson Tyler 

July 11, 1952-Jan. 29, 1994 
Our beloved Dwightie crossed over 
this past Saturday despite wonderful 
care. He was a 
charmer and a 
gentleman 
throughout this 
ordeal. In life he 
was generous 
and a humani¬ 
tarian. He was 
always the “life 
of the party” and 
loads of fun. He 
cared deeply 
about children, 
and each year he organized a Toys for 
Tots drive. He was tireless in helping 
friends during adversity. Everybody 
loved him. Y 

Maria Francine Vega 

June 5,1959-Jan. 21,1994 
Maria Francine Vega was bom in 
Hoboken, N.J., 
on June 5, 1959. 
In 1982 she mov¬ 
ed to San Fran¬ 
cisco with her 
husband and 
two children. 
She was loved by 
all who knew 
her and was the 
life of the party 
everywhere she 
went. Maria had 
many friends at Amelia’s and Maud’s. 
She had a special love for children and 
delighted in her grandchildren, Saman¬ 
tha, Anthony, and Angelica, her nieces, 
nephews and godchildren. 

On Jan. 21, 1994, Maria succumbed 


after a courageous battle with AIDS. 
She is survived by her loving husband, 
Manuel Ruiz; devoted daughter Fran¬ 
cine and husband Jaime; sons, Michael 
Vega and Michael Ruiz; mother, Bemie; 
brother Frans and wife Rose; sisters, 
Karen, Laurie Arne, Wendy and Kitten; 
nephew Erik and wife Jacqueline; and 
all the children who loved her so much. 

Special gratitude to Dr. Basch, Pat 
Manning (her AIDS Task Force “bud¬ 
dy”) and all the nurses from Contra 
Costa Dept, of Health and Hospice of 
East County. Y 

Thomas A. Wilcox 

Feb. 3,1955-Jan. 7, 1994 

Tom died at home in San Francisco. 

His untimely 
death caused by 
AIDS is tragic. 
He was a loving 
man and an ex¬ 
ceptionally gifted 
singer. Tom was 
a native of Ohio. 
He received his 
bachelor’s de¬ 
gree in piano 
and voice from 
Wheaton Col¬ 
lege. After graduation he spent two 
years touring Europe as a soloist for the 
German State Church. His extensive 
graduate work was completed at the 
University of Southern California. 

In 1980 he was awarded first prize at 
the Netherlands Shertogenbosch Inter¬ 
national Singing Competition. He has 
been a finalist in the Gold Award for 
Singer (London), the Munich Interna¬ 
tional Singing Competition, Western 
Regional Metropolitan Opera Audi¬ 
tions, San Francisco Opera Auditions 
and the Young Concert Artist Audition 
(NYC). He was the recipient of a Mar¬ 
tha Baird Rockefeller Fellowship 
award. 

Tom performed as a lieder, oratorio 
and operatic singer throughout the 
United States and Europe. 

In 1987 Tom retired as a professional 
singer. Concurrently he put his love and 
energy into trying to find a cure for 
AIDS. He was instrumental in the crea¬ 
tion of the Community Research In¬ 
itiative and PWA Health Group in NYC 
and the Community Research Alliance. 
He served as director of HIV Care at St. 
Francis Hospital in San Francisco from 
1989 to 1992. His genuine love of life and 
appreciation of those around him will 
always be remembered by the many 
people whose lives he touched. For fur¬ 
ther information call Gary at 255-1217. 
Y 

Gary E. Wilder Jr. 

April 11,1958-Jan. 5,1994 

To remember Gary is to remember 
a boyish, young 
many who had a 
remarkable zest 
for life. You 
could not help 
but love Gary 
because of the 
charm and 
warmth that he 
radiated. 

While he lived 
in Michigan and 
Florida, he felt 
most at home in his native California. 
As a bartender and waiter at Molly 
Brown’s on the Russian River, Gary’s 
personality made him many friends. 
Gary was also a recognized antique and 
glassware professional, owning and 
operating his own antique shops in 
Clearwater, Fla., and Guerneville. His 
professional advice was sought by 
dealers nationwide. 

Gary is survived by the two men who 
loved him most, Eddie Barker and 
Patrick. His parents and sisters reside 
in Ludington, Michigan. In his memory, 
donations to the AIDS Emergency 
Fund are requested. Y 

Halleck Wagner 

Dec. 7,1915-Jan. 16,1994 
Hal passed from this life of a heart at¬ 
tack at age 78. He was born in Reno, 
Nev., during WWI and served his coun¬ 
try and history in the Coast Guard dur¬ 
ing WWII. 

Hal loved opera, movies, and gay por¬ 
no, but above all else, he loved sports, 
particularly tennis. He was also an ac¬ 
tor and director at San Francisco State 
University. He worked at the old Hit- 
tenberger’s Co. for many years. The 
only known next of kin is a cousin in 
Portland, Ore. He also loved smoking 
and refused to quit. 

Hal wasn’t religious in the formal 
sense — so there will be no memorial 
service — but he was a kind fellow and 
the gang at the Lafayette restaurant 
down in the Tenderloin miss him, 
especially Kayne and Dave. 

You have not been forgotten, Hal 
Wagner. Y 


Bear - Dov • Satya 
(Don Klein) 

March 25, 1945-Jan. 10, 1994 
“Bear” Dov Ben Khayyim, an 
openhearted, 
honest and play¬ 
ful spirit, passed 
from this life on 
January 10, due 
to complications 
from AIDS, in 
the loving pres¬ 
ence of his life 
partner of 15 
years, Ron 

Congo. 

Born in 
Chicago, raised in Florida, Bear first 
came to the Bay Area in 1971. Defining 
life events were his coming out and 
travels to India, Israel and the 
Southwest. He held a dental degree but 
chose his right livelihood as gardening 
and landscaping. Besides nature, his 
passions included living simply, 


spiritual growth, and his identity and 
activism as a gay man, a Jew, a feminist, 
and on behalf of oppressed peoples and 
cultures. A freelance writer, he was an 
original staff member of Boston’s Gay 
Community News. His “children” were 
his non-sexist edition of The Telling: A 
Loving Hagadah for Passover and his 
cherished garden at his Berkeley home. 

In addition to Ron, Bear is survived 
by his brother, Michael; his sister, Ellen; 
two nieces and a nephew; his close 
friend, Wayne Myers; numerous other 
loving friends; and “doggie” Sinbad. A 
memorial celebration will be held on 
Sunday, February 13, at 1:30 p.m., 
Berkeley Hillel, 2736 Bancroft Way, 
Berkeley. Call (415) 6414556 for record¬ 
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Contributions can be made to RFD, 
Aquarian Minya, Pele Defense Fund, 
Hagadah Fund, and Ruti Hafsadi Mid¬ 
dle East Peace Fund, do Russell 
Discher, 550 S. Van Ness No. 405, SF 
94110. (415) 621-2747. For general infor¬ 
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Obituaries 


Bruce Weinberg 

March 10, 1942-Jan. 26, 1994 
Bruce died from AIDS on a sunny 
afternoon bet¬ 
ween storms. He 
was an interna¬ 
tionally known 
artist and print- 
maker. He is, 
was, and ever 



will be respected 
for his style and 
panache, tem¬ 
pered by an ear¬ 
thy wit and per¬ 
sistent point of 

view. 

Along with his refined artistic sen¬ 
sibilities, Bruce had as keen an eye as 
any for a good-looking man. 

Bruce was lovingly attended to and 
visited by friends too numerous to 
name, by family members, and by his 
special guardian, Peggy. A sister, 
brother, their spouses, three nephews 
and a niece are family survivors. 

A remembrance will be held on 
Saturday, February 5, at 1 p.m. in 
Bruce’s home and garden. Please call 
(510) 482-9412 for information and direc¬ 
tions. ▼ 


World News 


FundiesAre Fundies, Wherever Yo u Go: 

Zealots Object to 
Gay Play in Egypt 


United Press International 

CAIRO — The Egyptian 
Peoples Assembly (the coun¬ 
try’s Parliament) is the latest 
avenue for the ongoing dis¬ 
putes between the county’s 
conservative and liberal fac¬ 
tions over contemporary 
trends, including the liberal¬ 
ization of Egyptians’ opinions 
about homosexuality. 

Galal Gharib, an indepen¬ 
dent Minister of Parliament, 
submitted a “query” to Minis¬ 
ter of Culture Farouk Hos- 
niand, asking him to resign 
for violating religious values 
in ministry-sponsored events 
and publications. 

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mental theatre festival for fea¬ 
turing a play on homosexual¬ 
ity. 

Gharib asked all parlia¬ 
mentary women to leave the 
chamber in order to be freer 
in his query that dealt with 
obscene sentences and pic¬ 
tures published by the min¬ 
istry. After most of the wom¬ 
en refused, Gharib accused 
the minister of encouraging 
deviation in young people by 
printing paintings of naked 
people and obscene poetry in 
the government-sponsored 
artistic monthly Ibdaa. 

This latest flap is just one 
battle in the ongoing war be¬ 
tween the country’s conserva¬ 
tives and liberals — or the ex¬ 
tremists and secularists as 
they call each other. 

The liberal camp on the 
other side lashed out as well. 
Dr. Ghali Shoukry, a literary 
critic, wrote in the leftist 
weekly Rose Al-Youssef that 
the query “crystalises a 
bloody coup against culture 
and cultured.” In response, 
the cultured, intellectuals, and 
artists are planning a silent 
march to the Peoples Assem¬ 
bly to object to the query. No¬ 
bel Prize laureate Naguib 
Mahfouz, 83, will lead the 
march. 

In the meantime, liberals 
are collecting signatures on a 
statement that condemns “in¬ 
tellectual terrorism.” They 
consider Gharib’s query part 
of Muslim militants’ cam¬ 
paign to overthrow President 
Mubarak’s secular govern¬ 
ment to impose a stricter Is¬ 
lamic government. More than 
250 people have been killed, 
and 600 others wounded, in 
extremist-sponsored terrorist 
acts against the Egyptian peo¬ 
ple since March of 1992. ▼ 


Thai AIDS 

United Press International 

BANGKOK - Within eight 
years Thailand will have re¬ 
placed African countries at 
the top of the list of nations 
having the most carriers of 
HIV, an AIDS expert has pre¬ 
dicted. 

Virasit Sithitrai, a director 
of the Red Cross Aids Project 
in Thailand, said at present 
there are between 600,000 and 
800,000 HIV cases in Thai¬ 
land, which has a population 
of about 57 million. 

He predicted that by 2002, 
Thailand will have the most 
HIV carriers of any country 
in the world, including those 
of Africa, where the disease is 
currently most prevalent. 

Virasit told The Nation 
that currently 1.8 percent of 
Thai housewives are HIV-pos¬ 
itive, up from 1.4 percent in 
1992, and the ratio of female 
to male patients is two-to-one. 

“Our campaign will con¬ 
centrate more on women in¬ 
stead of men,” the Red Cross 
official said. 

Thailand’s booming sex in¬ 
dustry and intravenous drug 
use have been blamed for the 
country’s soaring AIDS rates, 
particularly in rural areas, de¬ 
spite ambitious AIDS aware¬ 
ness programs. ▼ 


Health & Community 


ACT UP Golden Gate Meetings are Tuesdays, 7pm. 584B 
Castro. Discuss treatment issues, possible actions and 
recommendations. 252-9200. 

ACT UP SF Meets every Thursday at 7:30pm in the 
Women's Building, 3543 18th St., 3rd FI. 621-0291. 

AIDS Family Project Support for relatives, lovers, friends 
of PWAs & HIVers. Operation Concern. 626-7000. 

AIDS Project of Contra Costa Sponsors Hot Sex 
Workshops, Guys Over 50 discussion groups, and Gay 
Male HIV-positive Rap Group. For times and locations, call 
(510) 356-2437. 

Adult Children of Alcoholics Gay & lesbian support group 
meets Wednesdays, 8-9:30pm, at MCC, Room 104, 150 
Eureka St. All are welcome. 

Bay Area Young Positives Support groups, retreats, fun 
night, referrals and peer counseling for HIV-positive 
people under 27. 518 Waller. 487-1616. 

Black & White Men Together 826-BWMT. 

Dignity SF Eucharist every Sun., 5:30pm. Presbyterian 
Church, 1329 7th Ave. 681-2491. 

Ellipse Support Groups Dealing with HIV, Bereavement, 
and significant other groups meet weekly. Hope 
Lutheran Church, 42nd Ave. & Kingridge Dr. 572-9702. 

Free HIV Tests Counseling, education and anonymous 
test results provided. Feb. 18, 10pm-12:30am. Upstairs 
from Blow Buddies, 933 Harrison. 

French-Speaking Social Group Meets the first Friday of 
each month. 861-3155. 

Gay Writers/Actors Group forming now to create 
parodies of commercials for Gay Pride. 982-ALAN. 

Gay Youth Awareness Training FOCYS, of Peninsula 
Family YMCA, offers training for educators on gay youth 
issues. 349-7969. 

HIV Network Personal case management program for 
people living with HIV & AIDS in Napa County. (707) 224- 
5496. 

HIV Support Workshops New groups forming, led by Neil 
Kaminsky at Operation Concern. Recently diagnosed 
workshop Feb. 9. Free. 626-7000. 

Impact: A Workshop for Managing HIV Eight Monday 
evening workshops on varied topics. Meets in Berkeley. 
(510) 548-9854. 

Lambda Youth Group Support group for les/bi/gay & 
questioning youth up to age 23. Confidential. Weekly 
meetings, Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm. (510) 887-0566. 

Making Better Sex Videos Lisa Ginsberg hosts a 
workshop for women with cameras. $20. Feb. 9. 8- 
10pm. Good Vibrations, 1210 Valencia. 974-8980. 

McClintock AIDS Cure Act Working Group Direct action 
working group to get the bill passed that will establish a 
Manhattan Project-style research initiative. Meets weekly. 
487-9954. 

Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group volunteers 
sought to provide emotional support and help with office 
duties. 863-1581. 

Peninsula Gay Men With HIV/AIDS Emotional support 
group meets in San Mateo. 573-2587. 

PLUS (Positive Living for Us) Weekend workshops in 
health care, recovery, benefits, safer sex, and many more 
topics concerning HIV. Feb. 4-6. Free, but limited to 75 
people. Volunteers needed. 403-3800. 

Safe Sex Video Contest San Francisco AIDS 
Foundation's 2nd annual showcase of erotic explicit gay 
men's videos seeks your submission. For guidelines and 
category listings, write to Safe Sex Video II, SF AIDS 
Foundation, 1170 Market St., 6th Floor, SF, CA 94102. 

SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade & Celebration 
Commitee Board of Directors meet Feb. 7. 7pm. General 
membership meeting, Feb. 13, 5pm. The Construction 
Center, 205 13th St at Mission. 864-3733. 

SF Center for Living Workshops, classes, counseling, 
body work, holistic and spiritual services. Volunteers 
always welcome. 4054 18th St. 252-1666. 

Sex, Dating and HIV Monthly discussion group for gay 
and bisexual men. Drop-in first Friday of each month. 
Marin AIDS Project, 1660 2nd St at G, San Rafael. 457- 
2487. 

Shanti Project Urgently needs volunteers to assist PWAs. 
777-2273. 

Veterans With HIV Support and social group at Oakland 
VA Clinic. (510) 273-7331. 

Visiting Nurses and Hospice Volunteers needed to help 
care for PWAs and others with life-threatening illnesses. 
Training for new violunteers. 861-6959. 

Women's HIV Clinic 12:30-4:30pm every second & 
fourth Monday. San Mateo County AIDS Program. 573- 
2385. 

Voices of Pride Sexual minority resource center offers 
support services to queer and questioning youth 23 and 
under. (510) 530-8529 or (415) 553-4026. 

Women Embracing Life (WEL) Support group for women 
with HIV. The Women's Bldg., 3543 18th St. 668-3765. 


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GLAAD Media Watch 


Focus on Riggs 


Health News 


by Al Kielwasser 

F ilmmaker and culture- 
critic Marlon Riggs is 
the subject of a cover 
story in February’s San 
Francisco Focus magazine. In a 
(rare) nine-page interview with 
Michael Datcher — a self-identi¬ 
fied “recovering homophobe” — 

Riggs comments on his life, 
work, and politics as an 
African-American, gay, and 
HIV-positive man. 

The filmmaker’s almost su¬ 
pernatural eloquence pervades 
this moving tribute. “Silence 
kills the soul; it diminishes its 
possibilities to rise and fly and 
explore,” Riggs explains to his 
astute interviewer. “Silence 
withers what makes you hu¬ 
man. The soul falters. It lives in 
a cage, and the cage continues 
to shrink, and it shrinks as the 
cage shrinks, until it’s nothing.” 

Focus is the magazine of 
KQED, Inc. In addition to this 
welcome cover story, KQED’s 
television operation (Channel 9) 
will broadcast two of Riggs’s 
films as part of their Black His¬ 
tory Month offerings. Affirma¬ 
tions airs Feb. 4 at 11:00 p.m., 
and Color Adjustment airs Feb. 

25 at 9:30 p.m. 

Comments should be sent to 
RickClogher, ManagingEditor, 

San Francisco Focus, 2601 
Mariposa St., S.F., CA 94110- 
1400, tel. 415-553-2800, fax 415- 
553-2470. 

It's about Time 

According to the Reuter’s 
newsservice, media giant Time 
Warner, Inc. is considering “the 
creation of a magazine aimed at 
gay readers.” A Time Inc. 
spokes-person said, “We’re ex¬ 
ploring the idea and concept at 
this point. It’s at a very prelim¬ 
inary, early stage. A lot of work 
needs to be done.” 

Send your very preliminary, 
early comments and inquiries to 
Public Affairs Department, 

Time Warner Inc., 75 Rocke¬ 
feller Plaza, New York, NY 
10019, tel. 212-484-8000. 

Place/Matt 

Matt, the continuing gay 
character on Melrose Place, has 
finally met a potential new love 
interest. On the Feb. 26 episode, 

Matt meets a stranger over 
lunch. They hit it off, flirt a bit, 
and eventually make plans for a 
dinner date. Matt, However, 
soon learns his new friend is 
something of a mystery man; he 
won’t give Matt his phone num¬ 
ber or reveal what he does for a 
living. By the episode’s end, 
though, it is revealed Matt’s 
date is a closeted Naval officer 
who feels he must keep his sex¬ 
ual orientation hidden from his 
family and his government. 

It’d be great if Matt’s new 
beau could be an open, proud, 
informed, gay man (rather than 
a deeply-damaged, culturally- 
disconnected closet case). Still, 
the producers are moving 
Matt’s character in the right di¬ 
rection. Besides, everyone’s life 
on Melrose Place is wretchedly 
complicated, and Matt’s is no 
exception. Compared to the 
show’s amorous heterosexuals, 
however, Matt is still a virtual 
eunuch. But that could change 
as this new plot line develops. 

Keep watching. 

Send encouragingcomments 
to Darren Starr, Executive Pro¬ 
ducer, Melrose Place, Spelling 
Enterprises, 5700 Wilshire 
Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90042. 

We must confront homophobia in order to cure it! To notify the Gay 
& Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation of any defamatory media cover¬ 
age, or to request GLAAD membership information, write to 
GLAAD/SFBA, 514 Castro Street, Suite B, San Francisco, CA 94114. Call 
our main office at 415-861-4588; fax, 415-861-4893; South Bay, 408-235-0229; 
East Bay, 510-273-9146; North Bay, 415-647-3055. ▼ 


Doug Savant, the actor who 
plays Matt, has championed the 
inclusion of gay characters on 
TV. Savant expressed his hope 
that, through exposure to Matt’s 
character, straight viewers will 
“begin to have the requisite 
compassion and understanding 
needed to obliterate the insidi¬ 
ous evil that is homophobia.” 
Letters can be sent to Doug Sa¬ 
vant, c/o J. Michael Bloom, 9200 
Sunset Blvd., Suite 710, Los An¬ 
geles 90069. 

CBS News: 

Sensitive, but not accurate 

In a Nov. 1, 1993, broadcast 
of the CBS Evening News, cor¬ 
respondent Scott Pelley said of 
Colorado’s Amendment 2, “Ba¬ 
sically, Amendment 2 says that 
homosexuals have no special 
legal rights in Colorado,’ 
putting a great deal of emphasis 
on the word “special.’ 

Lesbians and gays across the 
country informed CBS that Pel 
ley’s report was inaccurate; 
Amendment 2 would deny us 
equal rights, not special rights. 
In response, CBS Bureau Chief 
Alan Parcell promised to cor¬ 
rect the record and offer his 
written apology for the thought¬ 
less use of right wing rhetoric. 

Pressed for that long-awaited 
apology, however, Parcell had 
only this to say (in a letter dated 
Jan. 11, 1994): “While we stand 
by the accuracy of the story, we 
also appreciate the sensitivity 
that some words connote, and 
will try to be sensitive ourselves 
to their usage when doing fu¬ 
ture stories involving the gay 
and lesbian community.” 

Thanks for the sensitivity, 
Al, but the fact is that the story 
wasn’t factual! Send comments 
to Alan Parcell, Bureau Manag¬ 
er, CBS News, Two Dallas 
Communications Complex, 6309 
North O’Conner, Suite 125, Irv¬ 
ing, Texas 75039, tel. 214-869- 
2000. 

Sign of the times 

“Hate Can Stop Here — Re¬ 
scind the Resolution.” That’s 
the message carried on a bill¬ 
board unveiled February 1 in 
Cobb County, Georgia. The ad¬ 
vertisement is a response to a 
Cobb County Commission reso¬ 
lution, passed last year, that 
condemns lesbian and gay citi¬ 
zens. The Cobb County Board 
of Commissioners declared that 
“gay lifestyles” are incompatible 
with community values and re¬ 
stricted arts funding to (hetero¬ 
sexual) projects or groups that 
promote “family-oriented stan¬ 
dards.” 

The new billboard campaign 
is part of an on-going effort to 
bring social justice (and com¬ 
mon sense) back to Cobb. The 
Cobb Citizens Coalition and 
Concerned Citizens of Cobb are 
currently raising money to keep 
the billboard up through March 
of this year. 

To offer assistance and en¬ 
couragement, contact the Cobb 
Citizens Coalition, Billboard 
Project, P.O. Box 965336, Mari¬ 
etta, GA, 30066, tel. 404-256- 
8690. You can also lend public 
support by writing to “Letters 
to the Editor,” Marietta Daily 
Journal, 580 Fairground St., 
Marietta, GA, 30061; “Letters to 
the Editor,” Atlanta Constitu¬ 
tion, P.O. Box 4689, Atlanta, 
GA 30302. To share opinions 
about the impact of hate legisla¬ 
tion on local business revenues, 
call the Cobb Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, 404-980-2000. ▼ 


AAPHR Goes to Atlanta 

Friday Meeting with CDCIsJust the Beginning, Apparently 


by Dennis Conkin 

Leaders of the American 
Association of Physicians For 
Human Rights, the San Fran¬ 
cisco-based national organiza¬ 
tion for lesbian, gay, and bi¬ 
sexual physicians and medical 
students, will meet in Atlanta, 
Georgia this Friday with the 
new director of the Centers for 
Disease Control. 

The February 4 meeting, 
according to attorney Ben 
Schatz, AAPHR executive di¬ 
rector, will be the first be¬ 
tween David Satcher, M.D., 
the newly appointed CDC di¬ 
rector, and representatives of 
the lesbian and gay communi¬ 
ty.^ 

“In the past, we’ve had to 
go through the back door and 
beg for table scraps,” Schatz 
told the Bay Area Reporter. 
Now, he said, “We’re going in 
through the front door.” 

The gay and lesbian 
groups will discuss concerns 
about gay and lesbian health 
issues, in addition to AIDS. 

Among the items on 
AAPHR has on the agenda 


for the one-hour meeting is a 
request for the CDC to begin 
compiling sexual orientation 
statistics in the incidence of 
diseases that it tracks, in or¬ 
der to have an accurate pic¬ 
ture of how many reported 
cases of heart disease or other 
illnesses are affecting the les¬ 
bian and gay community. 

Also, the group intends to 
discuss the federal agency’s 
failure to track incidence of 
HIV in the lesbian communi¬ 
ty, and the need to do so in 
the future. 

Another key point the 
group intends to raise is “the 
level of funding for HIV pre¬ 
vention efforts among gay 
and bisexual men, including 
education campaigns that are 
gay-specific,” Schatz said. 

In the past, the CDC has 
been unwilling to target pub¬ 
lic service and media and out¬ 
reach prevention campaigns 
towards gay and bisexual 
men. 

“Actually, the CDC has 
called for a meeting to discuss 
that issue on February 10. We 
are very encouraged that they 



AAPHR Executive Director 
Ben SchatZ. (Photo: Scott Martin) 

have called that meeting,” 
Schatz said. 

Schatz said that the group 
“is optimistic” about the 
change in leadership at the 
federal agency, and said he 
thinks there is a real interest 
in working with AAPHR 
within the CDC. 

“We have every reason to 
believe they are receptive to 
our point of view. It’s a great 
opportunity after years of ho¬ 
mophobic leadership at the 
CDC,” he said. T 






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Queer Watch 


Strained Relationships 



by Michael C. Botkin 

T his past weekend fea¬ 
tured “Super Bowl 
Sunday,” statistically 
the most dangerous 
day of the year for American 
wives. Domestic violence 
peaks during the “Big Game” 
for specific reasons never 
clearly spelled out by the pun¬ 
dits and analysts. This is just 
one of those hints one gets ev¬ 
ery now and then that mar¬ 
riage, that ancient and most 
respected of institutions, 
doesn’t quite live up to its 
rosy image. The gay commu¬ 
nity, which recently began de¬ 
manding marriage rights, has 
frequently been told that it is 
not worthy or capable of the 
duties of matrimony. This is 
doubly insulting when you 
consider the low standards 
apparently current among the 
mainstream community, as 
reflected in the Super Bowl’s 
lethality. 

Dry statistics aside, consid¬ 
er the most prominent hetero¬ 
sexual relationships you see 
in the media these days: phi¬ 
landering Prince Charles and 
long-suffering Princess Di; 
would-be Olympic skater 
Tonya Harding and her (very 
recently) ex-husband Jeff 
Gillooly, who she allegedly 
tried to have “knocked off’ 
last year before rediscovering 
her love for him (and finding 
other outlets for her violent 
streak); and, of course, John 
and Lorena Bobbitt, on the 
cutting edge of marriage con¬ 
flict mediation. With promi¬ 
nent examples like these, 
where are today’s youth of 


whatever sexual orientation 
going to acquire healthy and 
positive images of romance, 
love and marriage? 

The new gay male rela¬ 
tionships portrayed in the me¬ 
dia are, of course, no better. 
At the top of the list would 
have to be Michael Jackson’s 
resolution of his “romance” 
with an underage boy for an 
out-of-court settlement ru¬ 
mored to be as much as $50 
million. This would be half of 
Jackson’s total worth, which 
when you think about it is ap¬ 
propriate for a “divorce.” 
When the boy’s father initial¬ 
ly asked for $20 million (a re¬ 
quest Jackson’s lawyers at 
that time stigmatized as “an 
extortion attempt” ), he was 
counter-offered a mere 
$300,000. In retrospect we can 
see that Jackson’s attempts to 
haggle merely doubled the 
cost. 

The Catholic Church is 
also settling out of court in lit¬ 
erally dozens of pedophilia 
cases, although the multi-mil¬ 
lion dollar payoffs are threat¬ 
ening to bankrupt some arch¬ 
dioceses. As with Jackson, 
there is a PR cost as well, 
since these priests were sup¬ 
posed to be celibate and not 
running up huge tabs to pay 
for the damage caused by 
their apparently incessant sex- 
ploits. 

Given such grim images in 
the news, those who wish to 
observe positive images of ro¬ 
mance must turn to fiction, 
and last month many turned 
to the just released TV ver¬ 
sion of Armistead Maupin’s 
Tales of the City. 


Shadowy liaisons 

Local queers tuned in by 
the thousand to view the clas¬ 
sic tale of San Francisco in 
the 70s. Bars and other queer 
environments emptied out a 
half-hour before show time on 
the three consecutive nights 
the series screened, as enthu¬ 
siastic gays flocked home to 
watch it. By so encouraging 
queer cocooning, Tales of the 
City may have incidentally 
promoted gay relationships; 
however, it did surprisingly 
little to portray them. 

The story, as even main¬ 
stream critics couldn’t help 
but notice, is primarily a het¬ 
erosexual romance. It follows 
the relationship between 
Anna Madrigal, eventually re¬ 
vealed to be a transsexual, 
and Edgar Halcyon, a 
wealthy (and married) adver¬ 


tising executive from their 
initial chance meeting in a 
park to Edgar’s death. Gay 
and lesbian liaisons are 
briefly viewed going on 
around the edges, but they 
are merely local color gar¬ 
nishing the story’s central ro¬ 
mance. 

One could argue that the 
Madrigal-Halcyon liaison is 
rather queer, since Anna 
wasn’t born a woman. If one 
takes a hard anti-transsexual 
line and denies that any 
meaningful transformation re¬ 
sults from “gender reassign¬ 
ment,” then Anna and Edgar 
are engaging in homosexual 
relations. But fine points of 
gender and orientation aside, 
it is clearly a “heterosexual” 
romance because the male 
and female roles are so clear¬ 
ly defined. 

The gay and lesbian li¬ 
aisons look shadowy in con¬ 
trast to this sweet and 
poignant affair. Mona engages 
in a desultory reconciliation 
with an old lover; this lesbian 
affair is subtly hinted to be 
what the French call a “mar¬ 
riage blanc,” a pure or sexless 
relationship based on affec¬ 
tion rather than passion. In 
any case, it collapses by the 
end of the book. Mouse, the 
gay Everyman, has a fling 
with a handsome gynecolo¬ 
gist, but this relationship also 
soon ends. 

Pixilated in the sticks 

Despite the surprisingly 
low queer content, Tales of 
the City was still pretty obvi¬ 
ously the best TV we’re going 
to see for quite a while. I was 
not surprised to hear that it 
was the most watched show 
of the week, at least locally. 
Was this despite, or rather be¬ 
cause of, the oft-repeated 
warning that “this show may 
not be suitable for some audi¬ 
ences”? Out of similar con¬ 
cern for the tastes (or rather 
prejudices?) of “some audi¬ 
ences,” a slightly censored 
version was screened in some 
markets. The bowdlerized 
version “pixilates” Mona’s 
bare breasts, among other 
things; viewers in San Fran¬ 
cisco got to see her nipples 
while those in Nashville only 
saw a vague checkerboard 
pattern, like an anonymous 
witness’s face on a true crime 
show. 

Both versions, however, 
showed the first truly passion¬ 
ate gay kiss ever screened 
during prime time. Pundits 


also marveled that the public 
would be exposed to a por¬ 
trayal of a gay bathhouse, 
but it was a very tame, not to 
mention well-lighted, estab¬ 
lishment that they showed. 

The Tales of the City se¬ 
ries, six books in all (the TV 
series is based only on the 
first), rarely gets around to de¬ 
tailed descriptions of gay rela¬ 
tionships. In the first book, 
Mouse meets and loses Jon, 
his gynecologist lover. In the 
second book, they reconcile — 
but at the very end of the 
novel, so you don’t actually 
see much of them relating. By 
the third book, Jon is dead, 
having died of AIDS between 
volumes, and although one in¬ 
fers a period of blissful ro¬ 
mance, it’s never actually dis¬ 
played. In book four Mouse 
doesn’t ever have sex or a 
date, let alone a boyfriend. In 
book five he meets the love of 
his life, and they even get it 
on before the beau returns to 
the East Coast at novel’s end. 
Only in the final volume do 
we see Mouse settled down 
and living with a partner. 

A friend of mine has sug¬ 
gested that perhaps Maupin, 
the author, didn’t have a 
boyfriend until after he wrote 
the first five books and thus 
was unable to confidently 
portray gay male relation¬ 
ships. Lack of personal expe¬ 
rience didn’t inhibit his abili¬ 
ty or interest in describing 
lesbian or heterosexual li¬ 
aisons, however. The answer, 

I think, must lie in the poor 
media market for gay rela¬ 
tionships. 

This is why, I suspect, that 
although there are already 
several books on Charles and 
Di, and we can confidently 
expect books and made-for- 
TV movies on both the Hard- 
ing-Giloolys and the Bobbitts, 
there will be no Michael Jack- 
son: The True Story or I 
Was a Molested Teenage Al¬ 
tar Boy extravaganza on the 
airwaves anytime soon. Who 
would sponsor such a show? 
Harding can promote “the 
club” and Lorena Bobbitt can 
market Ginzu knives, but 
what can Michael Jackson sell 
now? 

The mainstream media, 
alas, aims for the lowest com¬ 
mon denominator. Gay rela¬ 
tionships apparently aren’t 
low or common enough to 
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STATEMENT FILE NO. 182844 


URBAN REMOVAL, 75 Gough St. #8, San 
Francisco, CA 94102: KENNETH J. 
WEINER, 75 Gough St. #8, San Francis¬ 
co, CA 94102. 

Registrant commenced business under 
the above fictitious business name on 
the date January 24,1994. This business 
is conducted by an individual. Siqned 
KENNETH J. WEINER. 

This statement was filed with the Coun¬ 
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Francisco, CA on December 24, 1993. 

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STATEMENT FILE NO. 182793 

The following person is doing business as 
PIANOS TO RENT, 2075 Market St., San 
Francisco, CA 94114: BEVERLY J. 
OLSON, 14869 Midland Rd., San Lean¬ 
dro, CA 94578. 

Registrant commenced business under 
the above fictitious business name on 
the date January 21, 1994. This business 
is conducted by an individual. Signed 
BEVERLY J. OLSON. 

This statement was filed with the Coun¬ 
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STATEMENT FILE NO. 182751 

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5285 Diamond Heights Blvd #307, San 
Francisco, CA 94131; MATTHEW 
WEBSTER SYNDER, 5285 Diamond 
Heights Blvd #307, San Francisco, CA 
94131. 

Registrant commenced business under 
the above fictitious business name on 
the date January 18, 1994. This business 
is conducted by a general partnership. 
Signed LARRY JOSEPH KNEE. 

This statement was filed with the Coun¬ 
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Francisco, CA 94114. 

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the above fictitious business name on 
the date September 1, 1988. This busi¬ 
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the above fictitious business name on 
the date January 24, 1994. This business 
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Black Gay 

(Continued from page 1) 

I curse those whose defini¬ 
tion of genocide dismisses a 
people’s collective tragedy be¬ 
cause their deaths will not be 
traced to one tragic episode, 
person, perpetrator, nation, 
time. I contend that whether 
the tragedy is spread over 
centuries or a moment, when 
it is defined by malicious si¬ 
lence and malignant oppres¬ 
sion, it is still genocide. 

We must take off our blin¬ 
ders: racism, sexism, hetero¬ 
sexism and anti-Semitism are 
oppressions, deliberate and 
systematic. So I know what to 
call it when white-run pro¬ 
grams and agencies refused to 
create programs designed to 
keep blacks alive. 

I know what to call it 
when a pandemic goes ten 
years before targeted U.S. 
government grants provide 
for black people with AIDS 
restricted monies that are of¬ 
fered as a band-aid solution to 
keep a few black people alive. 

I know what to call it 
when white-run AIDS service 
organizations — inspired by 
greed, not altruism — then di¬ 
rect only minuscule resources 
targeting a few black people 
with AIDS so they can lay 
claim, where none actually 
exists, to equality and service 
to all. I am neither deaf, 
dumb, nor mute. I know what 
to call it. Genocide. 

Heterosexism is an oppres¬ 
sion not defined to one partic¬ 
ular era in time. Forever will 
it exist amongst — yes I will 
name them! — black hetero¬ 
sexists who would rather see 
black faggots and drag queens 
not be part of their communi¬ 
ty’s life. Black gays, bisexuals 
and transsexuals must label 
their holocaust as such. Do 
not be silent about those 
amongst our own who did not 
mind that we died. 

Too many black preachers 
and their minions, politicians 
and civilians, refuse to em¬ 
brace the “sexual deviants.” 
Some will acknowledge us in 
private, then in public refuse 
to embrace those who are 
gay. In the limelight they will 
not love us or hold us or 
shout out our names — though 
amidst the glow of the night- 
light, when hormones enrage, 
some, in hypocrisy, whisper 
our names. 

Because of their silence, 
black “leaders” set examples 
and teach their minions to be 
mute. Their deliberate con¬ 
spiratorial silence has sealed 
their named “sexual deviants” 
in coffins and caskets and 
urns, and left others unable to 
speak to the gay ones with 
compassionate words or voice 
love unconditionally to the 
gay ones with AIDS. 

I know what to call it 
when, with black pride as a 
rally cry, my community at¬ 
tempts to murder black gay 
culture. They try to erase 
from history our love and 
dedication to the race. Al¬ 
ready dead to our history are 
the contributions of my broth¬ 
ers and transgendered sisters. 
Yes, we meet Webster’s cri¬ 
teria for the term genocide. 

How sadly ironic that as 
black people collectively we 
struggle for liberation, yet 
will not in unison claim that 

freedom too must come for 
those who call themselves 
black transgendered, bisexual 
or gay. Condemned to self-ha¬ 
tred, many black homo-/bi-/ 
trans-sexual men find they 
can imagine only dying — not 
living — with AIDS. 

There is evidence that 
black “leaders,” with inten¬ 


tional malice, have intimated 
we be stoned to death. There 
is evidence that others have 
said they can prove we don’t 
exist — that homosexuality is 
a white racist plot to steal 
“our men” from our “wom¬ 
en.” Well, let me be clear on 
this: this black gay man be¬ 
longs to no one. 

Already too many black 
“leaders” are comfortable 
with a black gay historical 
death. Already many have 
cleansed us from history. Al¬ 
ready many have declared in 
public and private that AIDS 
would not have been a bad 
disease if it stayed (though it 
never existed solely) amongst 
gay men, thereby eliminating 
from the community the 
black faggots who dare claim 
themselves black. 'They left 
us to die. Refused to name us 
from a place of love. They de¬ 
nied us a place in black pride, 
then used racial pride as the 
heterosexist rallying cry to 
justify their refusal to claim 
us as their own. 

I no longer believe I must 
justify to others my existence. 

I have a right to be here. To¬ 
day, I choose to work with 
those people not afraid to 
claim me their own. I live 
amongst black gay-/bi-/trans- 
sexual brothers and sisters 
(we do exist by the way) who 
together declare We are as 
good as anyone. 

From this day forward 
may we be black gay, bisexu¬ 
al, and transgendered men, 
who dare fellowship with les¬ 
bians sisters and who, togeth¬ 
er, guide our own future. We 
claim ourselves as our own. 
We assert our collective right 
to survive. 

Notwithstanding the 
above, I can’t place blame on 
others without looking at my¬ 
self. Internalized in each of 
us are poisoned seeds of self¬ 
oppression, sown sometimes 
by ignorance and other times 
by design. Planted within 
each woman and man, op¬ 
pressions of race, gender, and 
sexual-orientation reap boun¬ 
tiful harvest of dead bodies. 
Dead black gav bodies. Dead 
black bisexual bodies. Dead 
black transgendered bodies. 

Oppressions have been 
planted deep within each of 
the communities we claim as 
our own, so we each must 
claim as part of our struggle 
the end of sexism, racism, 
anti-Semitism, and heterosex¬ 
ism. If not, our AIDS-induced 
phobias, lurking within, will 
be the death of us all. If not, 
our deep-seeded fear of “the 
other” will be fertile enough 
to let grow a malignant group 
silence that will deliver to the 
heavens many more souls of 
black folk before their time. 

I turn inward and reveal 
my early denial. Once, not 
long ago, I refused to count 
the funerals, the memorials, 
the urns, the caskets, the 
tombstones. I can connect my¬ 
self to the death-riddled histo¬ 
ry of my brothers and sisters. 

I do not ask of anyone what I 
will not ask of myself: What 
role did my silence play in 
the genocide of my people? 
Surely, without redemption, 
this question will haunt me 
the rest of my life. 

I lay claim to redemption. 
I vow that having learned 
from past silence, the voice of 
my future will be strong and 
uncompromising. I will not si¬ 
lence myself again. In time, I 
will make peace with my 
past. Forever may I be strong 
in the fight to keep my broth¬ 
ers and sisters alive. 

In my heart, soul and 
mind, my reason for commit¬ 


ment is clear: I won’t forget 
the members of my commu¬ 
nal family or multisexual 
black community or multicul¬ 
tural gay community who 
were murdered by AIDS. 

I remember James Toms, a 
black/Native American gay 
man and friend. He died of 
AIDS less than two years ago, 
though he had a right still to 
be here. His spirit I miss. His 
love I miss. His political and 
personal strength I miss. With 
hindsight I realize how his 
multicultural vision, borne of 
his dual cultural heritage, has 
become my own vision. 


Let me he 
tle.u <m this: 

matt belongs 

me. 


I remember Craig Harris. 
With humor he spoke of be¬ 
ing trilingual — fluent in 
“afro”, “euro,” and “homo”. 
He died in 1992, though he 
had a right still to be here. 
Despite a public gay identity, 
Craig knew (in the biblical 
sense of the word) both wom¬ 
en and men. On some days, 
so he will not be disappeared, 
I try to capture his wisdom in 
the wind, for Craig testified 
and signified and tried like no 
other. With foresight, he de¬ 
clared that men must be fem¬ 
inists. He reminded us that 
whatever longevity we claim 
for our brothers and sisters 
with AIDS did not come with 
out our lesbian sisters, who 
with us organized and cared 
and pounded the streets. 

I remember Arielle Ma- 
kela. A black transsexual, she 
had a right still to be here. 
With memories of Arielle 
come this comforting refrain: 
she is with the great transgen¬ 
dered God she so loved. I tes¬ 
tify of Arielle’s brilliance, of 
her strength and her stature. 
Arielle’s “do-right-by-me” 
creed was one of her gifts to 
me. And because Arielle al¬ 
lowed me into her world, she 
gave me an even greater gift: 
the insight that it was not the 
toughest lot in the world to be 
a black gay man in America. 
You see, Arielle, a black wom¬ 


an looking for peace, love, and 
protection, was too often 
shunned by a black gay-male 
world that refused to claim 
transgenders as their own. 

Because of AIDS, my Uncle 
Vincent no longer lives to sing 
his love for The Temptations. 
Some days I see clearly the 
sadness in Vincent, Jr.’s soft 
brown eyes, looking to me for 
a fatherly guidance and love I 
cannot always provide. It hurts 
me to tell him I can’t fill in his 
heart the space where his dad¬ 
dy was meant to be. But I can 
tell his story; I can claim him 
as my own and demand we all 
come to see Vincent, Jr.’s right 
to be here with daddy, though 
daddy no longer survives. 

Because of AIDS, my Aunt 
Jenny no longer smiles to 
brighten the lives of her chil¬ 
dren. I force myself to remem¬ 
ber her funeral, for I refuse to 
wipe from my mind the tears 
in the eyes of Jamel, Jameak, 
and Janazer left alone to sur¬ 
vive. My kisses cannot replace 
the maternal love forsaken for 
the rest of their lives. But I can 
tell their story; I can claim 
them as my own and assert 
their right to be here with 
mommy, though mommy no 
longer survives. 

My own mother’s brother 
and sister are dead: she shared 
injection drugs with each, so 
mommy dares not be tested 
for HIV. I understand her re¬ 
fusal. At night mommy some¬ 
times dreams of her brother 
and sister, sees tombstones, 
and imagines her body buried. 

And me? I dare not claim 
as my own the death of my 
mother, nor imagine a day I 
no longer breathe in her laugh¬ 
ter, humor, and wit. I never 
thought I’d mourn the trials 
and tribulations that remind 
me of mommy, but I will. 

As a black gay man I have 
cursed the God of my baptism. 
I have forsaken religion. I do 
believe though in the spirits of 
yesterday, so I pray to the col¬ 
lective “higher power” of my 
black ancestors. I believe they 
hide in a place where time and 
genocide do not reside. I pray 
my ancestors remember this 
earthly black nation aspires to 
survive. I pray they make real 
the dream Dr. King alone 
could not revive. 

When I summon my ances¬ 
tors this is my prayer: I want 
not another of my friends to 
be listed amongst the disap¬ 
peared, the forgotten. No more 

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invisible women and men. No 
more AIDS-infected black 
souls to join them in what 
some label heaven. 

With no belief in God or re¬ 
ligion, I still pray, because on 
some days the genocide is as 
real as the generation that 
someday will no longer exist 
between my grandmother and 
each of her grandchildren. For 
grandma Pearline, destiny de¬ 
clares there will be neither 
daughter nor son to help her 
grandchildren survive. 

I pray because in each 
prayer, subconscious and im¬ 
plicit, lies a belief of which I 
am not always aware: one day 
black people’s struggle will be 
over. Our victory will be won. 

I pray because only then 
can I envision Dr. King’s 
promise. 

And since my prayer, not 
grounded in faith, is also a 
dream, I give myself permis¬ 
sion to believe that Craig, 
James, Arielle, Vincent, Jenny, 
and mommy again someday 
will share with me their joy 
and their laughter. ▼ 


Tony Glover is Director of 
the Brothers Network, a San 
Francisco-based HIV/AIDS 
service agency founded, direct¬ 
ed, and staffed by black/ 
African-American and Carib¬ 
bean gay, bisexual, and trans¬ 
gendered men. An activist 
since 1983, he led the student 
anti-apartheid protests at 
Columbia University in 1985, 
investigated cases of AIDS-re- 
lated discrimination at New 
York City’s Human Rights 
Commission, and founded 
Men of All Colors Together 
/New York’s federally funded 
HIV/AIDS support services 
project in New York City. His 
essays have appeared in So¬ 
journer: Black Gay Voices in 
the Age of AIDS, The City 
Sun, and Gay Community 
News. He is currently editing 
Celebrating Diversity, a work- 
in-progress featuring poems, 
essays, narratives, and photog¬ 
raphy by 35 lesbians, gay men, 
bisexual men, and two-spirit- 
ed people from various cul¬ 
tures in the Americas, the Pa¬ 
cific Islands, the Middle East, 
Southeast Asia, and southern 
Africa. 

FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 27 















LEGAL NOTICES 


FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 
STATEMENT FILE NO. 182985 

n is doing business as 

____ 170 Divisadero St., 

San Francisco, CA 94117: QUAKE PRO¬ 
OF, INC. CALIFORNIA, 170 Divisadero 
St., San Francisco, CA 94117. 
Registrant commenced business undei 
the above fictitious business name on 
the date N/A. This business is conducted 
b^ a^corporation. Signed RUSSELL P. 

This statement was filed with the Coun¬ 
ty Clerk of the City and County of San 
Francisco, CA on January 28, 1994. 

February 3, 10,17, 24,1994. L-182985 


ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR 
CHANGE OF NAME FILE NO. 
952480 

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE 
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND FOR THE 
COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, in the 
matter of the application of A MINOR BY 
PARENT RONICA BENJAMIN TELEMA 
OKOBI, JR., for change of name. The ap¬ 
plication of VICTAVIA ULLION GEORGES 
for change of name, having been filed ir 
Court, ' 

tion tl 

has filed an application proposing that 
HER name be changed to TELANNA IN- 
GUZE BENJAMIN OKOBI. Now, 
therefore, it is hereby ordered and 
directed, that all persons interested in 
said matter do appear before this Court 
in Department X-4 on the 2nd day of 
March 1994 at 9 o'clock AM, of said day 
to show cause why the application for 
change of name should not be granted. 
It is further ordered that a copy of this 
Order be published in the BAY AREA RE¬ 
PORTER, a newspaper of general circula¬ 
tion, printed in said county, at least once 
a week for four consecutive weeks prior 
to the day of said hearing. Dated this 
20th day of January, 1994. 

February 3, 10, 17, 24,1994. L-952480 


ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR 
CHANGE OF NAME FILE NO. 

957549 

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE 
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND FOR THE 
COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, in the 
matter of the application of ANTONIO 
DURAND JACOBS for change of name. 
The application of ANTONIO DURAND 
JACOBS for change of name, having 
been filed in Court, and it appearing from 
said application that ANTONIO DURAND 
JACOBS has filed an application propos¬ 
ing that HIS name be changed to AN¬ 
TONIO DURAND HENDRICK. Now, 
therefore, it is hereby ordered and 
directed, that all persons interested in 
said matter do appear before this Court 
in Department X-4 on the 14th day of 
February 1994 at 9 o'clock AM, of said 
day to show cause why the application 
for change of name should not be 
granted. It is further ordered that a copy 
of this Order be published in the BAY 
AREA REPORTER, a newspaper of gen¬ 
eral circulation, printed in said county, at 
least once a week for four consecutive 
weeks prior to the day of said hearing. 
Dated this 4th day of January, 1994. 

January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 1994. 
L-957549 


FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 
STATEMENT FILE NO. 182715 

The following person is doing business as 
CAFFE MONDA, 2032 Polk St., San Fran¬ 
cisco, CA 94109: FRANK MONDA, 1411 
Hyde St., San Francisco, CA 94109. 
Registrant commenced business under 
the above fictitious business name on 
the date January 1, 1994. This business 
is conducted by an individual. Signed 
FRANK MONDA. 

This statement was filed with the Coun¬ 
ty Clerk of the City and County of San 
Francisco, CA on January 19, 1994. 

JANUARY 27, FEBRUARY 3, 10, 17, 
1994. L-182715 


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The following person is doing business as 
ALGEN, 993 Duncan St., San Francisco, 
CA 94131: MICHAEL ANDREW HOBAN, 
993 Duncan St., San Francisco, CA 
94131. 

Registrant commenced business under 
the above fictitious business name on 
the date January 1, 1994. This business 
is conducted by an individual. Signed 
MICHAEL ANDREW HOBAN. 

This statement was filed with the Coun¬ 
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JANUARY 27, FEBRUARY 3, 10, 17. 
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR 
CHANGE OF NAME FILE NO. 
957629 

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE 
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND FOR THE 
COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, in the 
matter of the application of ALISON LI 
HENG LIANG (Minor) QIN WANG 
(Mother) for change of name. The ap¬ 
plication of ALISON LI HENG LIANG for 
change of nam-, having been filed in 
Court, and it appearinafrom said applica¬ 
tion that ALISON LI HENG LIANG has fil¬ 
ed an application proposing that HIS 
name be changed to ALEX LEE HENG 
LIANG. Now, therefore, it is hereby 
ordered and directed, that all persons in¬ 
terested in said matter do appear before 
this Court in Department X-4 on the 16th 
day of February 1994 at 9 o'clock AM, of 
said day to show cause whv the applica¬ 
tion for change of name should not be 
granted. It is further ordered that a copy 
of this Order be published in the BAY 
AREA REPORTER, a newspaper of gen¬ 
eral circulation, printed in said county, at 
least once a week for four consecutive 
weeks prior to the day of said hearing. 
Dated this 5th day of January, 1994. 

January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 1994. 
L-957629 


PROPERTY FOR SALE 


LAKE MERRITT VIEW 
Convenient Location 
Gracious Entertaining and 
family living Rm w/ 

FP, Formal DR, Hardwood Fir, 

3 + BR 2 Bath, Lg Landscaped 
garden w/pond, 2 Dks, Garage, 
laundry. Offered at $255k. 
Open House Feb. 6. 1-4 Agnt. 
428 Wayne Ave. Oakland 
(510) 569-8010 Judy eos 

Mobile Homes For Sale 
View over 500 homes in 
“changing community" 10 
mins. S.F. 10% Dn, Big selec¬ 
tion. Great tax shelter. Realty 
USA 878-1000 eo6 

Lgr Stu Condo 2 W/ Closets 
Grt. Loc, 97k. No Agents. Nr. 
Pub Trans. (415) 255-4816 roe 


S€flTTL€ 

For Sole, & Mrs. Madrigal 
uuould approve, 1917 S.F. 
style - 3 story - 4+ apart¬ 
ments, million $$ vieuu of 
Puget Sound - City & Port. 
Cosily converted to 2-Full 
Vieuu units uu/separate Rpt. 
for Mom! $575,000 - No 
Agents or Banks. Pis FAX — 
The Grands Arms, 

© (206) 467-1467 ® 
4DeTLS 

This could be your 
classified ad!!! 
call (415) 861-5019 


FORESTVILLE - Nice Neighborhood. Have fun with all 
the potential. This home on a large lot has to offer! 

$94,900 

“SECLUDED HIDEAWAY” - Enjoy river views from sunny 
deck. $79,000 

BRAND NEW • SUPERB VALUE - Beautiful 3bd, 2 ba., 
overlooking Armstrong Valley in great quiet neighbor¬ 
hood. $235,000 

SUNNY ARMSTRONG VALLEY - Like new, 2 bed, Attch. 
garage, bonus bldg., seasonal creek. ONLY $159,000 
TURN OF THE CENTURY - Victorian style home with addi¬ 
tional income. Main structure is currently being used as 
a hair salon. ONLY $135,000 


1 

■i REALTY H 


Clean/Sober 

Share Home with 1 GM, Smoke 
OK. Quiet, sunny BDRM, new 
kit/bath, W/D, D/W, Hrdwd 
Carpet, Fully Furn. $450 + 

'A utils 285-1494 9am-8pmE05 

CASTRO/UPPER MARKET 
M/F Wanted to Share 2 BR w/ 
Gay male/fpl/deck/new pnt 
Strt Pking, Safe/quiet 
$460/mo. Chris 864-7177 ASAP 

EOS 

HAYWARD AREA 

HIV+, WM, 50 Seeks Resp M. 
to share furn home. Own room, 
bath, TV, VCR. Close to 
BART. No drugs. Call or Lve 
mess. Jim 510-489-8354 
Avail now. $450/mo. Incs 
utilities. Dlx Living eos 

$410 Sunny Cole St. Corner 
Flat w/Turret Window, Deco 
Furn. GM/GW. NS 751-0141 eos 

Sunny Potrero Hill Room 
Avail in Beaut Home-Many 
Xtras $375 Month. 550-6991 

E06 

$475 GWM large mod. apt. 
deck, vu, own 'A BA, F/P, D/W 
utils inc. No pets. Bob 648-8493 

E05 

Castro $675 elegant share. 

All amenities. Ist/lst $300 
dep. AvI. soon. 864-1909 eos 

Share Redwod City Home 
Fnce Yd, Garage, Own BA $485 
Carport $450. Greg 364-4184 

E06 

$485 + V 2 Util Share 
with GWM & 2 Cats, Sunny 
Viet, flat in Castro. N/S & 
N/D. Must be clean, mature, 

& quiet. 864-5285 Lv. Mssg.Eos 

Share Rental —Large 4 BDRM 
House, lots of room. Large 
backyard. Call Larry 
570-6778 or 572-2426 

Foster City eos 

San Mateo GM seeks NS to 
share home. $375. 341-7159 


Shr. 4 BR 2 BA, Yard, W/D, Utl, 
Cable, Kit Priv, HIV O.K. 
Mature GWM, 35 up. Clean 
neat, caring. No drugs., smkng. 
No pets. Emp. days. $450/mo. 
Avail 3/1/94 Ph. 563-3241 eos 

$400 1 Lg. Br & Bth, Pvt. 
entry. Shr. utl, ktn shr, w/ 

2 WMN, 1 Blk 2 BCH Nr TV ans 
plus Prkng. 355-6278 Eves, eos 


ROOMMATES;^®^ 
SUBLETS! 

List Your Vacancy Free! 




NEED A ROOMMATE? 

OUR GAY ROOMMATE SERVICE 
HAS HELPED 1000s OF 
GAY MEN AND LESBIANS 

552-8868 


RENTALS 


Studio, Clean, Quiet, Secure 
Bldg. Gabriel. 474-1083 eo7 

Oakland, Glenview Area, 1 BR 
Duplex, Yard, Garage, Pet O.K. 
$650 (415) 557-5058 E04 

3-BDRM, 2-BATH FLAT 

$895 HAYES VALLEY 
Ground Floor, Corner Ivy St. 

& Buchanan. Neighborhood is 
bad news, but just 1 'A blks. 
from nice part of Hayes St. 
Bldg. Victorian Ext. Modern 
inside. Move-in Total $2237.00 
Cat, Quiet Dog OK 567-4712 

E05 

Lg. One Bedrm Apt. 

673 Oak $650 922-4916 eos 

Oakland, Laney College Area 
1-Bed, Deck, Ph: (415) 388-4369 


SAN FRANCISCO 


$199 $45 

per week aaily rate 

single/double 

• Close to Union Square 
shopping, theatres, 
restaurants • Parking Availa¬ 
ble • Convenient to BART, 
MUNI, South of Market, Cas¬ 
tro Street • Recommended by 
Model, AmEx and Frommer’s 
Guides • Large Priv. baths, 
T.V., phone, 24 hours con¬ 
cierge • Gay Management 

PACIFIC BAY INN 

520 Jones Street, San Francisco 

415-673-0234 


Special Potrero Hill 
Top Floor View Condo 
2BD/2BA 

■ Gorgeous Panoramic Views 
and Large, Private, Sunny Deck 

■ Top Quality Finishes and All 
Amenities: W/D, frplc, 2 pkg, 
pool, tennis, spa, dishwasher, 
micro, compactor, ice maker 

■ Located in Gay-friendly Victoria 
Mews Luxury Condo Complex 

$1700 (415) 929-6996 



Bunkhouse Apts. 

419 Ivy 

$550 1-bdrm. #27 
$550 1-bdrm. #9 
$500 Studio #25 
$500 Studio #28 
514 Hayes 

$550 1-bdrm. #7 
$500 Studio #10 
501 Octavia 
$500 Studio #3 
$500 Studio #10 

All units carpeted, shades and 
curtains. 419 Ivy Street 
San Francisco 
Mon.-Fri. 1-6 p.m. 

863-6262 


1 - 800 - 974-9013 
( 707 ) 869-9011 
16315 MAIN STREET 
GUERNEVILLE 


The AIDS/HIV Life Center 

A Proposed 5-story 
AIDS Community Resource Center 

FOR LEASE 

# Ground floor street front single or mulit-tenant commercial 
# Up to 3,499 Square Feet 

For inquires and information leading to proposals, contact: 
WILLIAM DRYPOLCHER 
415-552-0129 Ext. 181 
ZEPHYR REAL ESTATE 
Proposal deadline: February 25.1994 


BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 28 








































































MENTALS 


HOTEL DAKOTA 

“Western Hospitality, European Charm” 


606 Post @ Taylor St. 
near Union Square/Polk Street 

m per night /H]C per week 
per room | Y I / w per room 
We have large, bright 
rooms with color 
T.V.'s, priv. baths, 
fridge, microwave and 
maid service. 

( 415 ) 

931-7475 



COMMUNITY 

RENTALS 

• Over 1300 Apts, flats & 
houses each month. 

• Vacancies in all city areas. 

• 2 convenient offices. 

• Open 7 days a week. 

• Gay owned/Gay staffed. 

552-9595 


IVY HOTEL 

$85 & Up Weekly 

( 415 ) 863-6388 

539 Octavia, S.F.CA 94102 


B.A.R. 

classifieds 

get results!! 

Call 

( 415 ) 861-5019 


TRAVEL 


TRAVEL FORECAST 

TEL(41 5)788-7232 FAX 788 2839 


March 1994 Departure 
okyo . NONSTOP $499. Manila 
saka .. 1 Y open $599. Saigon 
angkok. 1 Y open $739. Bali 
AX/Sao Paulo, 1 YR OPEN RETN 
-We Also Carry Japan Rail Passes- 
150 Powell St. 4209, S.F..CA 94102 


$759. 


$759. 


VACATION 

RENTALS 


WANTED 




COUNSELING 


R0CKHEART RETREAT 

2 BDRM, Russian River, 
Cabin, Private, Fireplace, Hot 
Tub, Hammock, Beautiful 
Setting. $275.00 3 nt. 
wknd, $550.00 per week. 
Peter 626-1169 


GET RESULTS BY USING 

B.A.R. 

CLASSIFIEDS!! 

CALL (415) 861-5019 


2 BR, HF, DK FB $850 431-4314 

E06 

HOME 4 RENT/SALE 

Spacious, 2 BDRM Home 
Oakland-Diamond Heights 
Hdwd Floors, Fenced Bkyd, 
Huge Liv. Rm, W/D, Parking 
Storage. Rent: $400/Rm/Mo. 

+ Utils. 1st + last to move. 
Sale: $145,000 
Ellen @ 510-532-6853 toe 

Hayes Valley 

$675-Charming, Sm 1 BA Apt. 
near Opera, Gym. Heat, water, 
garg. Sm. Pets OK. 487-9956 

E05 

$825 Mint Hill 2 BDRM 
NuKit, BA, W/W, W/D, Parking 
Avail. 861-2860 eo6 

Mt. Davidson, $400 + % Util, Ig 
Br + Prvt Kit & BA in Hse, W/D, 
Nr CCSF + BART. 587-8882 


Sacramento 

Enclosed Gated Complex 
Large 1 & 2 Bdrms, Heated 
Spa, Trans., Shop. 3536 Watt 
Ave., $400-450. (916) 486-8958 


Cole Valley-Frederick St. 
2 Bedrooms Apt. for 2 
Sunny-Garden View 
Quiet, Clean — $1200 
415-564-6671 
707-942-0212 


HAWAII 

Waterfall Valiev Mountain Views 


From this Beautiful north shore 
2-bedroom vacation rental on 
the Garden Island of Kauai. 

Two minutes from world-famous 
windsurfing Anini Beach, and five minutes 
from nude sunbathing on Secret Beach. 

An ideal place for a Dream vacation in this 
1,100 sq ft rental situated on 1/2 acre of 
tropical splendor, all beautifully furnished, 
with glassed-in Panoramic views from 
each room. Daily, weekly, monthly rates. 
Call Thomas (808) 828-1626. 


FOR SALE 


Mazda Miata '90, PKA 
Custom Pink, $12K. 558-9575 


84 SAAB 900T 

Excellent Cond. 
ALL EXTRAS INCL. 
PHONE, CD, LEATHER 
SUN ROOF, ETC. 
Best Offer Ovr 
$5400 - MUST SEE! 
Mess @ 861 1505 


for sale: 
CELLO: 

Hand-carved, 
Signed and Numbered 
Beautiful Intonation, 
Excellent Condition. 
Must see to believe. 
Includes: Carrying Case, 
Bow, Music Stand, Scale 
Books and Various 
Accessories. 
$1500.00 

Call: 252-0320. 


WANTED 


JAPANESE TRANSLATION AND 
VOCABULARY. 

Bi or gay: native language; well qualified. 
English to Japanese and reverse 
translations of personal communications. 
Discretion and confidentiality needed. 
Informal vocabulary drill to complement 
beginning conversation study. SF base. 
Pager: 303-4032: Fax : 648-3178 


RESEARCH 

HIV+ SOLE-SOURCE 

Nutritional Study. Wgt. Loss 
& Diarrhea, 3-4 a Day. $300- 
$800 Stipend Paid. 14-28 
Days. Call Andrew 476-3670 




LEATHER MEN WANTED 
We re looking for hot, 
hard MEN! Showcase 
your stuff for magazines 
or videos. Five time 
award winning 
photographer, 

Jim Wigler. 

$ $ 974-1995 $ $ 


Palm Spring 
Villa: Pool/Spa Tennis 
$395/Wk. (909) 924-1371 eq 6 

Club Ex-Network 
with members around the world 
is the first Gay & Lesiban Home 
Exchange/Hospitality Club. Stay 
free in member's homes around 
the world. Free Brochure/Mem¬ 
bership Application — Call 
1-800-787-0010 roe 

PARADISE 

On the sands of Wakiki 
Bch. 1 BDRM Condo, 1 Blk from 
Granite Tops fully 
equipped kitchen W/D, drop 
dead ocean view, Fax, parking. 
Available 2/27. Call for weekly 
and monthly rates. 

(213) 466-4070 eob 


Substance Abuse Counselor: 

Group and indiv recovery counsel¬ 
ling to gay/bi men in outpatient 
clinic. Required: relevant degree or 
equiv exp; strong doc skills; 
knowledge re: substance abuse, 
HIV, gay/bi men, multicultural. If 
recovering, 5 yrs C&S req. 40 hrs, 
$22,000 plus ben. Start ASAP. 
Ltr and resume to: Stephen Man¬ 
ning, PhD, Exec Director, 18th 
Street Services, 217 Church St., 
SF 94114. AA/EOE 


OFFICE ASSISTANT 

Must know Windows 3.1, must be 
comfortable solving computer 
challenges, must be able to write, 
spell & type. Must be punctual, 
honest & have a “can-do” attitude. 
PIT, flex hrs. $8/hr. 

TITAN Productions 441-1211 


Asst. Wanted 

Busy Exec, is looking for a young man 
to assist his housekeeper. Must be 
responsible, clean and neat. Flexible 
hours. Student pref. Send Responses 

to: 838 Market St., 4th Floor, 
S.F., 94102. Attn: Brad 


Writers Wanted 

Freelance feature writers wanted for 
the Bay Area Reporter. Please send 
your clips or sample stories to: 

Features Department, Bay Area Re¬ 
porter. 395 9th Street, 

San Francisco, CA 94103. 


Excellent Soloflex, Hurry! 
$400 o.b.o. Cash. Brad 431-9351 


LOVE IS BLIND 

So I don't need mag/video 
collection. $20/6 tapes 
$2/10 mags. 435-7799 9a-9p 


XXX VIDEO MODELS 
See Ad Under People 
Allen Productions eu 

Telecommunications Tech. 
Exp. person needed to work 
on large T-1 voice & data 
network. Work in SF, 
excellent pay & benefits. 

Call Jim (415)984-7700 eo? 

NURSES 

T.N.B.S. 

San Francisco's only gay 
operated nursing service. 

RN'S NEEDED 
ICU, CCU, PICU, OR ER 
OR TECHS, AND CNA'S, HHA'S 
1255 Post St., Suite 810 
SF CA 94109 
415-567-5120 eob 

Video Crew: Lavender Lounge 
No pay, big fun! 337-4921 eo6 

DENTAL ASSTS 

Vallejo Office Exp. Pref. 

Fax Resume (707) 644-2233 


B.A.R. Classifieds 
get results!! 
(415) 861-5019 


RETAIL SALES 

Friendly, aggressive, well groomed men & 
women sales associates needed for #1 
adult video/gift stores. 

Various S.F. locations, $6.00 per hour 
+ commissions. Excellent advancement 
opportunities available. 

(415) 495-6402. 

Between 1-3 pm ONLY for appointment. 


OUTREACH WORKER: for West Addition 
Afr Am. for gay/bi male substance 
abusers. Street-based HIV & drug educa¬ 
tion. Req: relvnt degree/exper, effective 
w/target pop, know HiV, substance 
abuse, documentation. Start immed. 
$20,000/40 hrs. w/excellnt benefits. If 
recovering, 2 yrs. C&S desired. Resume 
& letter to: Exec Dir, 18th Street Services, 
217 Church St., SF 94114. AA/EOE 


RETAIL CLERK 

Clerk for busy Castro Area retail video 
store. Must be friendly, self-motivated, 
energetic, and competent. Need work 
refs. Full-time and flexible day and eve¬ 
ning hours and weekends. Starts at 
$6.50 per hour. Pick up applicatiion at 
4141 18th Street. 


InThe 1990 s 


Only Proven Leaders Will Survive 


Join us. No one is better prepared to help 
you serve your clients than IDS. 

A single-minded focus on doing what’s right 
for our clients allowed IDS to prosper in the 
turbulent 1980s. When you put your clients’ in¬ 
terests first, success follows. 

_ During the last five years, IDS has led with an 

AnAnwonExm^jm outstanding record of sales and earnings 
HjS S growth. Our commitment to financial 
■Ml planning, and thoughtful, prudent 
mangement of our clients’ assets, positions us 
for continued success in the 1990s. 
l or more information, call 

IDS Financial Services 
San Francisco/Marin (415) 492-8222 
Peninsula (415)593-9170 

Equal Opportunity Employer M K I) 

America’s Leading Financial Planning Company 


TRAVEL/SALES 

Uniglobe, the industry 
leader in corporate 
travel is looking for 
corporate sales reps for 
our SF office. No exp. 
nec. Full company 
training. Travel benefits, 
Comm, & bonus. 415-346-8877 


HOUSEKEEPER 

Responsible, Honest, Hard 
worker needed 3 half-days 
weekly to clean, do laundry, 
run errands, for a 
gay male hshld in SF. Must 
have exl. refs. Send ltr. 
with Exp. to Mr. Winston, 
555 DeHaro, Box 210 
SF, CA 94107. Eos 

Men By Balducchi 
Magazine Layouts, Extremely 
Well Hung/Muscular 
Models. Top Salary 647-8089 


Home Health Care 
Experienced Only 
LVN's RN's 
642-1406 
Call for Appt. 


PSYCHOTHERAPY 

TRANSFORMING ATTITUDES, 
FEELINGS & BEHAVIORS 


□c 

DAVE 

COOPERBERG 

LIC #MFC12549 


• Improve Self-Esteem 

• Develop Meaningful Relationships 

• Change Life-Long Patterns 

• Move Beyond Fear & Grief 

• Become More Fully Alive 

• Individual & Couples Work • 

• GAY MEN’S IN-DEPTH CHANGE 
GROUP— Thursdays: Over 14 years 
running. A powerful and effective 
group providing both the challenge and 
support to transform your life. Co-led 
by Pedro Rojas. 

(415) 431-3220 

Over 20 Years Serrving the Bay Area 


Individual Psychotherapy 
and Couples Counseling. 
Castro/Noe St. Frank Banks 
MFCC intern IMF21119 
Reasonable Fees 406-0411 
Sup A Clemenes PL4919 eos 

THIS COULD BE YOUR 
CLASSIFIED ADI! 


BUSINESS 

SERVICES 


Alexander & Williams 

Word Processing/Secretarial Services 

• Tape Transcription 
• Resumes • Correspondence 
• All Business Documents 

GaryR. Williams 
447 Battery Street, Suite 300 
San Francisco California 94111 
(415) 773-8249 
(415) 433-3359 (FAX) 


Macintosh 

~^| Training & 
Consultation 


Richard Burton 626-2620 


Computer Help !!! 

Setup, Tutoring & General help 

IBM, DOS, Windows 
Mode ms, BB’s a specialty! 

Richard 

(415) 621-RICH 
(7424) 



ESTATE PLANNING 
& PROBATE 

Wills, Trusts & 
Powers of Attorney 
Real Estate & Business 

Tom Rodgers Attorney at Law 
Castro Office 861*0516 


FINANCIAL PROBLEMS? 

Personal • Business • Bankruptcy 
Chapter 13 • Chapter 11 
Free Initial Consultation 
20 Years of Experience 
Over 1000 Cases 

864-0449 

Walter R. Netion » Law Office 


BANKRUPTCY 

★ Stop Lawsuits and 
Foreclosures 

★ Free Initial Consultation 

★ Legal Fees From $195.00- 
Payments Arranged 

★ 10 Years Experience 

STOP CREDITOR HARASSMENT 
863-1417 

SCOTT V. SMITH, ATTORNEY 

Convenient Castro-Market Location 


BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 29 
















































































































































W (Zta&tifcecU 


TAX 

DIRECTORY 


LICENSED 

MOVERS 


HAULING 


UPKEEP & RENOVATIONS 


S5SS* 


-SINCE1972-^ ^j[ 

Experienced in Electrons Filing 
Same Day Service on Most Returns 

FOUR RETURN PREPARERS: 

George • Christina • Brenda • Harry 
Everyone Welcome 

( 415 ) 387-6980 

6033 GEARY BLVD. (at 25th Avenue) 
SAN FRANCISCO 94121 


Tax Time 


Advertise your 
tax service in our 
tax directory. 

Call David 
861-5019 
for rates. 


9 "D. & As&omtea 
'Beekkeepiwj S mice. 

For Individual and Small 
Companies (Income Tax, 
Bookkeeping, Payroll). 

Phone: (415)647-7654 
★ Since 1983 ★ 


Matthew R. Perry Tax and 
Business Consulting 

SCHED. “K" SC RED. “C" ELEC. FILING 


1040 $23.00 $23.00 $23.00 

540 $12.00 $12.00 $12.00 

SCHED “A T ' $23.00 SOWED. *‘C“ $32.00 
ELEC. FIUNG $25.00 

COMP. FEE $10.00 $10.00 $10-0 0 

TOTAL $$$.00 $77.00 $70.00 

Call For Information 
(415) 861-4132 


Consumer AH«lrt Raglstutkm Wumbtr P-32608 


INSTRUCTION 


FRENCH CLASS 

For beginners starting February 
7th. Small group. 100% French 
atmosphere. 10% off with this 
ad. Call (415) 362-3666, 
FRENCH CLASS-School of 
French and Translation Service, 
500 Sutter Street. 


This could be your 
classified ad!!! 
call (415) 861-5019 


LICENSED 

MOVERS 


Eat. 1973 

Cal P.U.C.T. 140305 


Office & Household 
Moving Services 

Low Rates 

VISA • Mastercard * 

567-6146 
PW.A Discount 



Experienced gentle movers 
of valued possessions 


Full Service Moving 
Free Estimates — Storage 


1 (800) 794-4755 
(415)8214755 


CAL-T-174719 GAY OWNED 


B.A.R. 
classifieds 
get results!! 

Gall 

(415) 861-5019 


" When you have 
to be sure 
that your move 
is right " 

Specializing in offices 
and households. 
Licensed • Insured 

GEMINI 


MOVERS 


(415) 558-9926 

(CAL. T1428 74) 



STARLITE 

Moving & Storage 

Complete storage facilities. 
Low rates. 

Office &. household. 
Expert piano movers. 
Licensed &> fully insured. 

822-4721 

Gay owned & operated 
(CALT 174-390) 


NOW AVAILABLE 

PROFESSIONAL 
MOVING SERVICES 

— Household 
—Corporate 
—Office & Industrial 
"Keep It In The Family" 
Russ Pepin 

Menlo/Allied Van Lines 

(415) 321-6071 
H- (415) 252-0434 

PUC —T133275 ICC MC 15735 


-Reliable Relocations- 

2 men, $ 52/hr. most jobs. 
Large Enel. Truck. 621-5164 Ei7 

Homo Truck Driving Man 
861-0569 776-4495 

David-Dave eos 

ECONOMICAL MOVING 
Fast, friendly, careful 
$ 28/hr. Andrew 752-6016 eis 

★ -*2 Men-Truck Cheap-* ★ 
Fast Move. Louis 474-5377 eo6 

-Reliable Relocations- 

2 men, $ 52/hr. most jobs. 
Large Enel Truck. 621-5164 eos 

Careful and Reliable 
Light Hauling $ 20/hr. 

359-5122_ eos 

★ Hauling, etc. 441-1054 ★ Ei 2 
Nob Haul - $25 Min- 552-4350 


Moving and Hauling $25/hr. 
Jess 621-8112 eos 

My Truck For Hauling Or 
Dumping. $20/hr. 333-1 577eo7 

Haul Basement Home 
Furnishing, Cheap, Fast 
Call Lou 992-1807 eos 


UPKEEP & 
RENOVATIONS 


□ □□ 051,639407 

□ filfilUl 

□lleMasters 0E® 

Ceramic - Marble - Granite 
Bathrooms - Kitchens - Entries 
Floors - Shower Pans - Decks 

1-800-510-TILE 

Free Estimates 
Serving S.F. and the East Bay 

David Johnson 1-800-510-8453 


GENERAL CONTRACTOR 

Carpentry, Remodel & 
Dry Rot Repair 
Lie. # 653723 

750-0836 

Martin 


HAULING 


-Reliable 621-5164- 

Also Palm Springs/LA Runs eo6 

Small Haul or Move 
$25/hr. or w/helper $35 
771-7902/Bpr. 207-0575 eos 


ROOFING 

All types-complete or patch 
Quality work since 1981 
state lie #569521-references 

North Cal 333-3701 


CAS HARDWOOD CO. 

Hardwood Floors 
Beautifully 

Sanded, Stained, Finished 
Quality Work 

Free Estimate 285-3405 

(Lie tt6138711 



• Additions 

• Kitchens 

• Baths 

• Decks/Stairs 

• Termite Repair 

• Windows/Doors 

• Tiling 

• Dry Rot Repair 

• Electrical & 

Plumbing 

• Seismic Upgrades 


Residential and Commerical 


I Free Estimates ■ Dependable 
■ References ■ Affordable 

State License # 631216 

»urad PL & PD 553-7712 


Allen’s Painting 

Int./Ext. 
Free Estimate 

752-0927 


Castro District Electrical Contractor 



Phone: 415.647.9473 
License No. 664030 
Woman Owned 


This could be your 
classified ad!!! 
call (415) 861-5019 


Hardwood Floors 

• Install & Finish 

• Bleach/White Stain 
Specialist 

Craftcare 221-2303 

(Lie. » 676013) 


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M&M MAINTENANCE 

Quality Remodeling & Repairs 
Carpentry • Electrical 
Plumbing 

Sheet Rock • Texture Matching 
Painting • Prep Work 
Tile • Vinyl 

Safisfaction Guaranteed 

MARK 441-8453 

Free Estimates • References • Fair Rates 

V 17 Years Experience A 

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CERAMIC TILES 

Call Skip - 487-6260 


HOMEWOOD BUILDERS LTD. 


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RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL 



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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 


PEOPLE AND PERSONALS 


VOL. XXIV NO. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1994 


Me'ShellNdegeOcello on Music, 
Madonna and Lesbian Chic 

Upwardly Mobile 



Me'Shell Ndege Ocello 


by Wayne Hoffman 

M e’Shell Ndege 
Ocello is not the 
easiest person in 
the world to inter¬ 
view. Unlike most recording 
artists, she’s somewhat shy 
and reticent to toot her own 
horn. But she’d better get 
used to the spotlight because 
she’s made an auspicious 
splash with her debut album, 
Plantation Lullabies (Maver¬ 
ick Records). 

“Listen to the record,” she 
said in an interview from her 
home in New York. “The mu¬ 
sic is much more interesting 
than me.” 

But Me’Shell sells herself 
short. In a field where artists 
wait years to be discovered, 


Her family's 
surname was 
Johnson, but 
she chose 
NdegeOcello, 
which means 
"free like a 
bird" in 
Swahili. 


Me’Shell has made her 
recording debut at the young 
and enviable age of 24. And 
in a business where creativity 
is often considered an indus¬ 
try risk, Me’Shell has broken 
new musical ground with a 
gritty hybrid of jazz, funk and 


hip-hop. Add to that the fact 
that she’s an outspoken black 
lesbian and you have a legend 
in the making. 

Her sudden success is no 
great surprise. She grew up 
in a musical family: her father 
was a U.S. Army band leader, 
and her older brother played 
with go-go bands for years. 
Her family encouraged her to 
pursue music early in life, 
but, said Me’Shell, she resist¬ 
ed it for years, until she got 
into high school and found 
that she could no longer resist 
her muse. 

“I didn’t want anything to 
do with music,” she recalls. 
“But one day, a friend of my 
brother’s left his bass at the 
house and I just started fid¬ 
dling around. It was as natu¬ 
ral as breathing. I fell in love 
with it.” 

After high school, Me’Shell 
studied in Howard Universi¬ 
ty’s jazz program and began 
occasional work with local 
groups in her native Washing¬ 
ton D.C. Her collaboration 
with go-go band Rare 
Essence proved fruitful, as it 
led to her first solo projects, 
which gained instant critical- 
recognition: in 1990 she took 
home three Wammies (D.C.’s 
local music awards) for her 
solo work. That’s when things 
really started to take off. 

Me’Shell moved to New 
York and began to expand 
her musical talents. She be¬ 
gan playing all her own in¬ 
struments and doing her own 
vocals. “I got tired of asking 
people to come and they 
wouldn’t show up,” she 
protested, “That’s why I play 
everything.” 

At first she started playing 


small clubs around New 
York. After positive reviews 
hit print she began searching 
for a record label. Tommy 
Boy found her, but faced with 
little money and too many 
artistic restrictions, the rela¬ 
tionship didn’t last long. She 
turned down the one offer 
they made. Disillusioned.and 
burned out, Me’Shell was 
ready to give up on her 
young career. 

But true to form, she took 
control of her life and turned 
things around. She started by 
changing her last name. Her 
family’s “government sur¬ 
name” was Johnson, but she 
chose NdegeOcello, which 
means “free like a bird” in 
Swahili. 

“I have respect for my fam¬ 
ily, she explained, “but as a 


person, I think you travel 
through life, and sometimes 
you change, and there are 
some things associated with 
my old name that I’d like to 
get past.” 

Madonna 

With a new name and out¬ 
look, things finally took off, 
and just in the nick of time. 
“Last year, I was ready to quit 
music totally and become a 
barber. But just when I got 
into barber school, all this 
stuff started happening.” 

The “stuff’ she’s talking 
about amounted to a deal big¬ 
ger than she’d ever imagined: 
an offer to work with Madon¬ 
na. Me’Shell became the first 
woman to sign on the diva’s 
own Maverick label. It hap¬ 
pened so quickly that 
Me’Shell didn’t have the time 
to pinch herself. 

“I did a gig on Thursday in 
New York,” with a Maverick 
agent in the audience, and 
Monday morning I flew out 
to LA to meet Madonna,” she 
explained. “She said she’d 
like to meet me and that she 
liked my music, so I went out 
there and we ate rice cakes 
and gum balls and talked. I 
was nervous, overwhelmed. It 
was like ‘Dang. This is fuck¬ 
ing Madonna!’ But she’s really 
a nice person. She’s my boss, 
you know.” 

Madonna seemed to appre¬ 
ciate Me’Shell’s no-nonsense 
attitude about being openly 
lesbian. “With Madonna, I 
don’t think she cared. She 
heard the music before she 
even met me, and signed me 
up before she even knew, so I 
don’t think that had any im¬ 
pact,” said Me’Shell. 

But she has gotten plenty 
of flak from others about her 
gayness. “This is a very ma¬ 
cho system. Musicians make 
their little comments,” she 
said. “But I see it as their ig¬ 
norance. It has nothing to do 
with me.” 

Other performers are not 
so bold. Many closeted musi¬ 
cians worry about losing the 
support of their labels and lis- 
(Continued on page 41) 


Politics 


by Noreen C. Barnes 

W hat is the impact 
of the culture of 
the ’90s on the 
female body? 
What does it mean to be a 
woman in a time of increas¬ 
ing corporeal alterations, vio¬ 
lations, inscriptions, codings, 
fetishizing and objectifying? 
To control one’s body is to 
control one’s life. Our bodies 
are our biographies, our so¬ 
cial, political and sexual iden¬ 
tities. 

How culture defines and 
represents the female body is 
the focus of “The Illustrated 
Woman: The Second Annual 
Conference on Feminist Ac¬ 
tivism and Art,” a collabora¬ 
tion of women artists, ac¬ 
tivists, film and video artists, 
scheduled for this weekend, 
February 4th and 5th at the 
Center for the Arts Forum at 
Yerba Buena Gardens. The 
event is sponsored by SF 
Camerawork and The LAB. 
In conjunction with “The Il¬ 
lustrated Woman,” The LAB 
will present a group multi- 
media exhibition by women 
presenters entitled Address¬ 
ing Herself. 

Bodies in question 

Art as activism is a central 
topic of the conference: partic¬ 
ipants will examine the 
means by which feminist art 
subverts the “biomedical 
politicization” of the female 
body. To this end, Orlan, a 
surgically-altered Parisian 
artist, will present her ongo¬ 
ing self-transformational per¬ 
formance/lecture, Operation- 
Reussie and, approaching the 
idea of the body from an alto¬ 
gether different angle, Carla 
Kirkwood will present an in¬ 
terdisciplinary solo perfor¬ 
mance of adolescent resis¬ 
tance, Bodies of Evidence. 
Excerpts from both Michelle 
Handelman’s Women on the 
Edge, a documentary about 
women in the leather S/M 
community, and New York 
artist Kathy High’s video Un¬ 
derexposed, the Temple of 
the Fetus, will be shown. 

Opening night keynote 
speeches will be delivered by 
performer/writer Sapphire, 
filmmaker Barbara Hammer, 
visual artists Hung Liu, Millie 
Wilson, and media artist Shu 
Lea Cheang. Kirkwood’s per¬ 
formance will follow. 

Saturday’s panels include 
“Frankenstein’s Daughters, 
Hardy Heroines and Body 
Morphs,” a discussion among 
artists, theorists and writers 
about “issues facing: women 
artists who represent their 
own images, histories, com¬ 
munities and desires through 
autobiography, fiction, perfor¬ 
mance and visual art.” Pan- 

(Continued on page 40) 


Orlan and the Art of the Radical Makeover 

All the World's an O.R. 



by Dorian Gray 

I t all started in 1978 
with an ectopic preg¬ 
nancy, one that occurs 
outside the uterus. The 
woman had a busted Fallopi¬ 
an tube and was hemorrhag¬ 
ing internally. There was no 
choice. They were going to 
have to operate. Fast. 

Orlan, the woman in ques¬ 
tion, was organizing an inter¬ 
national symposium on per¬ 
formance and video at the 
time. So she did what any en¬ 
terprising performance artist 
with a burst Fallopian tube 
would do: she got a video 
camera into the operating 
room and had an epidural 
block (local anaesthetic) ad¬ 
ministered, which allowed 
her to direct the filming of 
her own medical emergency. 
Each tape as it came out of 
the camera was taxied to the 
symposium. 

Surgical poetics 

Today the French perfor¬ 
mance artist describes that 


creative choice as “a fight 
against the inexorable, the 
programmed, everything 
which one doesn’t decide for 
oneself. I tried to reverse the 
situation in order to master it. 
To act as though it were my 
decision.” Sounding like the 
professor of Beaux Arts that 
she is, Orlan explained, “This 


is the recuperation of life as 
an aesthetic phenomenon. 
This is art and life carried to 
their extremes.” 

Fifteen years later, Orlan 
is back on the operating table. 
Only now instead of waiting 
for the random anatomical 
disaster to strike, she’s volun- 
(Continued on page 41) 


Second of Two Sections 



















OutThere 


The Annals of Queerdom 


by Orland Outland 


Part of the Bobby Ray 
Inman story that didn’t 
make headlines: The nominee 
for the secretary of defense 
post blamed a vicious media 
for prompting his withdrawal, 
and he said that in addition to 
the usual prying, three differ¬ 
ent reporters had asked him 
if he was gay. The Washing¬ 
ton Post said that “there had 
been a whispering campaign 
about his sexual orientation 
after a 1980 episode in which 
he refused to revoke the secu¬ 
rity clearance of a gay man at 
the National Security Agen¬ 
cy.” Inman said, “When I 
made the decision, a very 
pragmatic one, to keep the 
gay employee on at NSA, 
there were lots of allegations, 
whispers, suggesting that I 
must be of comparable per¬ 
suasion, else I wouldn’t have 
made that decision. Those [ru¬ 
mors] had come from other 
agencies as well. All of the 
law enforcement and security 
agencies were adverse to the 
decision.” Well, it looks like 
we just lost the one candidate 
for defense secretary who 
would have stood up to any 
and all pressure from the right 
on gays in the military. 



He'd have given Lestat a bite 
to remember. 


It’s time for another 
episode of Now It Can Be 
Told, a feature of this column 
every time a celebrity kicks 
the bucket and the details of 
his sex life come out. In Chap¬ 
ter MCMIV, The New York 
Observer noted that on a re¬ 
cent episode of the cable-ac¬ 
cess show Party Talk, Vil¬ 
lage Voice dish maven 
Michael Musto was “drop¬ 
ping heavy hints about recent¬ 
ly overdosed River 
Phoenix's possible sexual 
ambiguity.” Had he lived, that 




certainly would have made 
his climactic scenes with 
Tom Cruise in Interview 
With the Vampire more in¬ 
teresting, no? 

What this town needs is a 
good tabloid, with headlines 
like “Toddler Terminated in 
Tenderloin Turf War!” Bar¬ 
ring that, a weekly paper like 
the New York Observer, 
which reads like the old Spy 
(back when it was funny). The 
Observer was present at a 
NYC auction benefiting Gay 
Games IV, where Sotheby’s 
premier auctioneer, Robert 
Woolley, gaveled off various 
treasures, including (for 
$4,000) a day on the set of 
S.F.’s Falcon Studios. “You 
can be the fluffer,” he said to 
stir up bidding (though I am 
told Falcon doesn’t use 
Buffers, actually). Woolley 
himself dropped $2,000 for a 
dinner date with Falcon star 
Paul Bain, but insisted he’d 
be having “just dinner” with 
his prize, even though some¬ 
body told him that Bain “puts 
out.” Woolley showed the Ob¬ 
server Bain’s card, which de¬ 
scribed him as an employee 
of “Corporate One Executive 
Assistance.” No comment re¬ 
quired from moi on that one. 



Sharon Stone: an inspiration 
to lesbians (brothers, that is) 
everywhere. 


I Confess: In my secret oth¬ 
er life, I masquerade occasion¬ 


ally as a secretary. So I sim¬ 
ply had to go see The Five 
Lesbian Brothers’ play, The 
Secretaries, at Theater 
Rhinoceros. And I enjoyed it 
thoroughly, especially Peg 
Healey's performance as 
“Susan Curtis,” the Sharon 
Stone -like leader of a cult of 
Slim-Fast addicted secretaries 
at an Oregon lumber mill, 
who knock off a lumberjack 
once a month in an orgy of 
blood and pizza. It’s Twin 
Peaks meets The Stepford 
Wives, with a touch of Bell, 
Book and Candle thrown in 
for good measure. You have 
to see a play when it has a 
line as priceless as “We don’t 
kill them because they’re bad 
— we kill them because we’re 
bad.” It plays through Feb. 19; 
call Rhino at 861-5079 for 
tix/info. 


There are all kinds of ar¬ 
guments against gay mar¬ 
riage: “natural law,” “Western 
.tradition,” etc. But Rod and 
Bob Jackson-Paris may be 
the best argument against it, 
if only because these spokes¬ 
men for the sacred institution 
are about the most vapid cou¬ 
ple this side of Pat and 
Vann a. The former body¬ 
builder and the former mod¬ 
el, who now star together in 
soft-porn “art photography” 
books, have written their sto¬ 
ry (with no ghostwriter!) and 
called it Straight From the 
Heart (subtitled, “A Love 
Story”). Boring people have 
rights, too, but does that in¬ 
clude the right to foist their 
boring story on the rest of us? 


Note to Bob and Rod: your 
private life is your business, 
and if you chose to live a clos¬ 
eted lie for all those years, 
well, it was your immortal 
souls in torment and not 
mine. However, don’t come 
blathering to me about how 
now you want to be role mod¬ 
els for gay and lesbian youth 
when the fact is that you’d 
still be in the closet today if 
you hadn’t been forced out. 
Sorry, but that doesn’t say 
“role model” to me. 



Lip-synching Scott Thomp¬ 
son, not a figure skater but 
still gay. 


That darn Philadelphia - 
it just keeps making news. 
The lead item in Variety’s 
“Buzz” column last week was 
the reaction of openly gay 
comic and Kids in the Hall 
star Scott Thompson to the 
film. Angry about the trend 
of giving gay starring roles to 
straight actors, Thompson 
said, “I feel like this is our 
Color Purple. It seemed like 
a movie about black people 
starring whites ... I don’t re- 



William Hurt: No Carmen 
Miranda. 


call any gay roles played by 
gay men.” Thompson cited 
William Hurt's perfor¬ 
mance in Kiss of the Spider 
Woman as a typically inaccu¬ 
rate performance: “I’m sorry, 
I lived with a Brazilian queen 
— that was no Brazilian 
queen.” And Tom Hanks' 
opera scene? “I’m an opera 
queen, and if you’re an opera 
queen listening to your fa¬ 
vorite aria, aren’t you lip- 
synching? Lip-synching is the 
most popular gay sport, after 
figure skating.” ▼ 

Call my Psychic Dish Net¬ 
work at 995-2342. Believe it 
or not, I can predict with 
amazing accuracy what the 
best gossip will be in next 
week’s column! 



Killer quintet: The Five Lesbian Brothers play murderous high¬ 
haired secretaries in their hit offering currently at Theatre 
Rhino. 


Opera 


Harvey Gets an Opera 


The San Francisco Opera, 
Houston Opera and New 
York City Opera have co-com- 
missioned a new work based 
on the life and death of Har¬ 
vey Milk, San Francisco’s 
first openly gay elected public 
official. The opera, entitled, 
Harvey Milk, features music 
by Stewart Wallace and a li¬ 
bretto by Michael Korie. The 
production will be co-pro¬ 


duced by the Houston, New 
York and San Francisco 
opera companies and will re¬ 
ceive its world premiere in 
Houston in January 1995. 
Harvey Milk will be pre¬ 
sented by the New York City 
Opera in the spring of 1995 
and will be.presented by the 
San Francisco Opera during 
the Fall 1996 opera season. 

Composer Stewart Wallace 


and librettist Michael Korie 
have collaborated on other 
musical projects, namely, 
Where’s Dick?, which pre¬ 
miered at the Houston Opera 
in 1989; Kabbalah, a ritual 
opera for 10 performers, 
which premiered at the 
Brooklyn Academy of Music 
in 1989; and a chamber opera 
entitled Hopper’s Wife. ▼ 





























Film 




The Hamptons Hosts Film Festival 

Suburban Melodramas 


by Brandon Judell 

T he Hamptons, that 
exclusive mecca for 
sugar daddies, lip¬ 
stick lesbians, art 
fags and moneyed straights, 
has recently been host to a 
chi-chi film festival. 

What are the Hamptons, 
you say? For those not famil¬ 
iar with this prestigious East 
Coast enclave, James Saslow, 
author of Ganymede in the 
Renaissance: Homosexuality 
in Art and Society, and a 
Hamptons’ renter, explains it 
succinctly when he says the 
Hamptons are where “gays 
used to go 20 or 30 years ago 
because they were too sedate 
for the Fire Island life style.” 

Gays are no longer so se¬ 
date, but we’re still going to 
the Hamptons. Even dead 
gays can’t resist the atmo¬ 
sphere, like famous New 
York poet Frank O’Hara, 
who is buried in a Hampton’s 
cemetery at the feet of leg¬ 
endary abstract painter Jack- 
son Pollock. 

However, despite the 
strong gay presence in the 
Hamptons, its first interna¬ 
tional film festival was, by 
far, the straightest in recent 
memory. There was only one 
gay-themed feature, Michael 
(Zorba the Greek) Cacoyannis’ 
Up, Down and Sideways. 
The plot: Maria (Irene Papas) 
and her handsome gay son, 
Stavros, share a passion for 
opera and hot numbers. One 
day amidst a traffic jam, 
Stavros is mistakenly arrested 
by the cops as a bank robber. 
To escape the law, he hops 
on the back of a motorcycle 
driven by Anestis, a gym in¬ 
structor who claims to be 
Maria Callas’ son. A three¬ 
some of sorts occurs among 
the leads, which is spiced up 
by a coterie of sailors, a 
transvestite, and a mad night 
at the opera. The vice-presi¬ 
dent of distribution for Aries 
Film Releasing, T.C. Rice, 
was at the festival searching 
for films to buy. He critiqued: 
“It’s a lot of laughs, but I 
don’t know how wide a gen¬ 
eral audience it will appeal to. 
On the other hand, it might 
just have something infectious 
about it that could catch on 
for no real reason.” 

Revamped 'Streetcar' 

Also screened was A 
Streetcar Named Desire, re¬ 
vamped with the four addi¬ 
tional minutes that were ex¬ 
cised years ago by censors. It 
was being paraded about as if 
a half-hour had been added. 
So now Stella walks down 
the steps sultrily. Perhaps 
someone should mention Ten¬ 
nessee Williams’ overt 
speeches about homosexuali¬ 
ty which never made it into 
the film in the first place. 
Still, this is a flick always 
worth another viewing, no 
matter how flimsy the excuse. 

Gayness was apparent too 
in a special series of docu¬ 
mentaries on artists, including 
I Don’t Just Want You to 
Love Me, on Rainer Werner 
Fassbinder, Larry Rivers’ 
Public and Private, plus 
Paul Bowles: The Complete 
Outsider. Noteworthy, too, 
were the rather clever, 
though straight, short films 
by actors trying to stretch 
their resumes with directorial 
credits: Rob Morrow’s Silent 
Alarm, Matthew Modine’s 
When I Was a Boy and Daryl 


Hannah’s very funny The 
Last Supper, in which a little 
girl uses a severed arm to rid 
Mom of her new boyfriend. 
All three stars/directors at¬ 
tended. 

Of all the films shown, 
however, the best were the 
student films out of New 
York University’s Tisch 
School of the Art’s Depart¬ 
ment of Film, Television and 
Video. More than 65 under¬ 
graduate and graduate stu¬ 
dent films from around the 
Eastern half of the United 
States were screened. The 
subjects were so lavender- 
tinged — homosexuality, drag 
queens and AIDS — that one 
need not worry about the fu¬ 
ture of gay U.S. filmmaking. 

Camus flummoxed 

The big disaster of the fes¬ 
tival was Luis Puenzo’s The 
Plague, starring William 
Hurt, Robert Duvall and Raul 
Julia. Based on Camus’ fa¬ 
mous novel of the same 
name, the subject of a city 
ravished by a contagious dis¬ 
ease couldn’t be more rele¬ 
vant. But the project is 
steeped in pretension and in¬ 
ept direction. You’ll want to 
get vaccinated by the time it 
ends. 

But the true tour de force 
of the four-day event was a 
panel on film preservation 
which included Martin Scors¬ 
ese and Steven Spielberg. 
The two were witty, knowl¬ 
edgeable and one might even 
say “humble.” Scorsese not¬ 
ed, “You know Billy Wilder 
once said, ‘Ernst Lubitsch can 
do more with a closed door 
than a modern director can 
do with an open fly.’” Spiel¬ 
berg admitted, “I think about 
the audience too much. When 
you think about the audience 
too much, you stop thinking 
about yourself — and you 
wonder, well, how do I fit 
into my own movies? Where 
do I put myself? And recently 
I’ve been making movies 
where for the first time I 
thought more about myself 
than the people the film will 
eventually play to — and I’ve 
had a rather wonderful, per¬ 
sonal experience working this 
way. It’s late in my life, but 
better late than never.” 

Scorsese, inspired, shared 
too: “I saw many films as a 
child because of having se¬ 
vere asthma. My mother and 
father didn’t know what to do 
with me, no sports or any¬ 
thing. The very first film I re¬ 
member seeing was Duel in 
the Sun. My mother took me 
to see it because she knew I 
liked westerns and she was 
particularly interested in see¬ 
ing it because the film had 
been condemned by the 
church. ‘I’ll take the kid.’ That 
was just an excuse to watch 
what they had termed ‘lust in 
the dust.’ ” 

So with openness like this, 
maybe there’s need for anoth¬ 
er film festival soon? 

“Not in the Hamptons!” 
screamed fuming play¬ 
wright/activist Larry Kramer 
a few hours later, pointing to 
the crowds lining up outside a 
movie theater, as he stalked 
down the street. “I moved 
here to escape crowds, to es¬ 


cape New Yorkers. Now look 
at this town!” 


We’re looking, Larry! But 
now that the festival is over 
and the vacation homes are 
shuttered, and the boulevards 
are covered with snow, you 
can once again create — or 
fume — in peace. 


But not so for advertising 
legend Jerry Della Femina 
who helped sponsor the festi¬ 
val. There is a warrant out 
for his arrest, not because he 
helped unleash Abel Ferrara’s 
horrid remake, Bodysnatch- 
ers, on an unsuspecting pub¬ 
lic, but for placing pumpkins 
in front of his food shop. Yes, 
that’s right, pumpkins on dis¬ 
play. The powers that be in 
East Hampton consider the 
orange gourds a form of 
unauthorized exhibition, 
which is strictly forbidden in 
these parts. In fact, The New 
York Times quoted Mr. Del¬ 
la Femina as stating, “I never 
knew you could go to jail for 
flowers and pumpkins.” (Do 
you think sodomy is a better 
reason?) 


Word has it that this 
quaint, suburban to-do has 
supplied the plot for Ferrara’s 
next feature, a remake of the 
1960’s Village of the 
Damned. The working title: 
Town of the Kramers. ▼ 


William Hurt was marooned in Luis Puenzo's film, The Plague, 
based on Albert Camus' novel. 


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Dance 


Susanne Linke/'Ruhr-Ort' 

Industrial Movement 


by Wendell Ricketts 

D ance aficionados are 
still chuckling over 
the review that 
famed New Yorker 
critic Arlene Croce gave sev¬ 
eral years ago to a series of 
European dance companies 
then visiting New York. 
Lamenting the influence of a 
certain post-modern, post-ex¬ 
pressionist, post-something 
Continental style on Ameri¬ 
can forms, Croce skewered 
the likes of both Pina Bausch 
and Maurice Bejart with a 
blunt dismissal: “Eurotrash!” 

Ms. Croce wouldn’t have 
liked Susanne Linke’s Ruhr- 
Ort either. 

Ruhr-Ort — literally, “the 
Ruhr place” — is Linke’s 
eponymous homage to the in¬ 
dustrial and mining region on 
the western edge of the for¬ 
mer West Germany that has 
been her adopted home for 
more than 20 years. Ruhr- 
Ort received its San Francis¬ 
co premiere at the Yerba 
Buena Center for the Arts on 
January 26th and 27th. 

Ruhr-Ort is meant to con¬ 
vey the “gritty” life of the 
Ruhr’s working class — ma¬ 
chinists, assembly-line and 
steel workers, miners, and 
other laborers. Although 
Linke originally intended the 
piece to be a vehicle for her¬ 
self, she decided, after wit¬ 
nessing what the program 
note calls the “inferno-like 
spectacle of a steel plant,” to 
write herself out of Ruhr-Ort 
and turn it into a project for 
an all-male company. 

The stage for Ruhr-Ort i s 
cavernous and dimly lit, so 
that Linke’s seven dancers 
are literally dwarfed by the 


fuming, noisy pit that enclos¬ 
es them. It’s a kind of steel 
mill cum coal mine; more 
than anything it resembles 
the bleak, vaporous planet in 
the opening sequences of 
Aliens. 

The conceit of Ruhr-Ort i s 
promising: Linke’s dancers 
are dressed in standard-issue 
work clothes and steel-toed 


boots; at one point, each of 
them cradles, balances, and 
repeatedly drops an 80-pound 
aluminum ingot. If they stag¬ 
ger under the weight, and if 
their collars are soaked with 
sweat, it is real staggering 
and real sweat, not choreogra¬ 
phy or makeup. 

On the one hand, one 
needn’t struggle to recognize 
the rather trite metaphor 
Linke is engaged with here: 
humankind swallowed up in 
the maw of industrial 
progress. The spirit-sucking 
banality of working life in a 
European version of Levit- 
town. 



BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 36 



On the other, Ruhr-Ort 
does succeed in evoking a 
kind of underworld in which 
the male mysteries prevail. 
Vulcan presides over this 
landscape of smoke, fire, and 
steel, and Linke is on to 
something when she attempts 
to grapple artistically with the 
manifest maleness of her sub¬ 
ject. 

But there is little that is 
subtle about the piece. In its 
early moments, strobe-like 
flashes of light (provided by 
an on-stage arc welder) illumi¬ 
nate the vast upstage area. 
There, a group of metal lad¬ 
ders lean against the far wall. 
Slowly, five dancers descend 
them and make their way to 
center stage, where, in uni¬ 
son, they attack an immense 
piece of sheet metal with 
sledgehammers. Immediate¬ 
ly, Linke establishes the 
archetype of male instrumen¬ 
tality — and yet there is enor¬ 
mous futility in it: For all its 
sound and fury, the workers’ 
prolonged hammering actual¬ 
ly produces no result. 

Next, the dancers begin to 
run in place on the sheet of 
metal, which quakes and 
clangs with every deafening 
footfall. Linke’s recurrent use 
of the running motif suggests 
that she is to running what 
choreographer Laura Dean is 
to spinning; each is interested 
in the kind of hypnotic beauty 
that comes from the repeti¬ 
tion of movement. 

For all of that, however, 
Ruhr-Ort remains strangely 
inarticulate — and so, on the 
whole, do Linke’s dancers. 
Her men grimace with 
tongues extended like Maori 
warriors; they gesture and 
writhe, convulsed with tics. 
They outshout and out-jabber 
one another during their 
work breaks; they parrot each 
other’s gestures and phrases; 
they greet one another’s mis¬ 
fortunes with the same 
coarse, hearty laughter that 


they bring to the inevitable 
rounds of smutty locker-room 
bragging. 

But from the clangorous 
opening sequence of dancers 
slamming full tilt into sheet 
metal with sledgehammers, 
Ruhr-Ort has very little room 
to grow toward any sort of 
dramatic climax. 

The result, then, is a kind 
of muted depiction. Ruhr-Ort 
has force but it does not have 


power. It evokes, but it does 
not evolve. One could legiti¬ 
mately say, in fact, that Ruhr- 
Ort isn’t dance as much as it 
is a collection of dance effects. 

No doubt Linke has paid 
fine tribute with Ruhr-Ort t o 
the blue-collar ethos of her 
home town. Beyond an obvi¬ 
ous documentary reverence, 
however, she seems to have 
had trouble locating a point 
of view on her subject. ▼ 


Theatre 


Star Turns 


by Jerry Metzker 

W hen Lanford Wil¬ 
son’s Burn This 
opened on Broad¬ 
way in 1987, John 
Malkovich gave a scenery- 
chewing performance that re¬ 
duced his co-performers to 
helpless rag dolls. Not so with 
the Kudzu Theatre’s produc¬ 
tion currently playing at 
Above Brainwash Theatre. In¬ 
stead of letting one character 
run wild, director Reid Davis 
has focused his attention on 
the entire cast. He’s created a 
whole on which no part is al¬ 
lowed a larger portion. 

Certainly Phil Stockton’s 
Pale has tremendous energy, 
is as truculent as any charac¬ 
terization can be, and even 
chews some scenery of his 
own. But he is not alone. In 
fact, next to Charla Chabot’s 
multi-layered performance as 
Anna, he takes a back seat. 

Anna is a woman of few 
words, at least in this play. 
Her dance partner and best 
friend Robbie has just been 
killed in a freak boating acci¬ 
dent along with his gay lover, 
leaving her suddenly alone 
and lost. Her boyfriend, Bur¬ 


ton, (Greg Hoffman) lingers 
on the fringes of her life, a 
perpetual potential security 
blanket, a retreat from the 
constant upheaval that is a 
dancer’s life. 

Then Pale, Robbie’s 
volatile and grieving older 
brother, literally barges into 
her apartment. Pale is even 
lonelier than Anna, but dy¬ 
namic, sexual and frightening. 
He awakens desires he never 
knew she had, feelings that 
both intrigue and repel her. 
The two begin an intricate 
and dangerous dance. 

Wilson has laid the founda¬ 
tion for a contemporary 
tragedy here, and as the pas¬ 
sion between Anna and Pale 
increases, Chabot’s perfor¬ 
mance gets deeper. Even as 
Anna physically and verbally 
pushes Pale away, Chabot’s 
body and soul long for him. 
While speaking firmly, she 
twists her fingers in uncer¬ 
tainty. When she curls up on 
the sofa, she does so out of 
the physical need for stability 
and order in her suddenly un¬ 
wieldy world. In spite of her¬ 
self she is drawn to him. 

But every tragedy does 
not have a Larry (Ross Mar- 


tineau), the wise-cracking, lov¬ 
able other gay roommate. 
Larry is confidante, observer, 
and miracle-worker. In spite 
of not having much of a social 
life of his own, he prevents 
Anna and Pale from destroy¬ 
ing each other. 

I have heard both positive 
and negative assessments of 
this play. Personally I’m torn. 
While I applaud Wilson’s in¬ 
credible use of language and 
stagecraft, I object to the con¬ 
trol he exerts over the action 
of the play. Wilson did not 
want to write a complete 
tragedy, so he added Larry 
and filled Burn This with 
hope. 

I’m not opposed to hope 
and happy endings, but being 
a contemporary playwright, 
influenced by Beckett, the 
hope is questionable. The 
play concludes on a note of 
uncertainty that is more an¬ 
noying than dramatically 
compelling. 

Still, terrific performers 
are worth watching and Char- 
la Chabot is terrific. ▼ 


Burn This 

Above Brainwash Theatre 
Through Feb. 12 
995-4778 





























Film Clips 


Theatre 


Noir in Color 

Red Rock West is a glossy, 
noir-in-color drama starring 
Nicholas Cage as a down-and- 
out guy who’s mistaken for a 
hit man (Dennis Hopper). To¬ 
tally broke, Cage can’t resist 
taking a $5,000 payment for 
killing a bar owner’s wife, but 
doesn’t shoot her. After warn¬ 
ing her of the danger she’s in 
(and making another deal), 
Cage hightails it out of town, 
only to be drawn back — 
again and again — to the scene 
of his non-crime. Like the 
best of film noir, Red Rock 
West has a convoluted, sus¬ 
penseful plot, a crackling 
sense of humor, and stylish 
visuals. Director John Dahl 
has assembled something of a 
David Lynch reunion here 
with Cage, Hopper and Lara 
Flynn Boyle, but his filmmak¬ 
ing is less affected and more 
affecting. 

At the Roxie (8634087) 


★ ★ ★ 


Careening ’Gate' 

M. Butterfly author David 
Henry Hwang wrote Golden 
Gate, about a San Francisco- 
based FBI agent (Matt Dillon) 
who knowingly ruins a Chi¬ 
nese man’s life — the agent ac¬ 
cuses him of Communist ties 
in the 1950s — then years later 
falls in love with the man’s 
daughter (Joan Chen). It’s a 
great premise for a drama (or 
an opera), only Hwang and di¬ 
rector John Madden can’t de¬ 
cide what they’re making —- a 
period piece, film noir 
homage, a post-modern satire 
of ’50s FBI movies, or a social 
critique. Gate is nicely shot, 
but careens from the didactic 
to the soap operatic, never 
quite finding its stride. 
Hwang and Madden seem un¬ 
aware when they’ve said 
something visually, for they 
are constantly repeating ver¬ 
bally things they’ve shown 10- 
15 minutes earlier. Then 
there are just plain loopy 
lines like (from Chen:) “I 
wanted to ruin your life, but 
not like this.” And (from Dil¬ 
lon:) “Some loves are impossi¬ 
ble, but they are loves just the 
same.” Indeed. 

At the Bridge Theatre 
(751-3212) 


★ ★ ★ 


Out of Gas, Synch 

I rarely leave a movie I’m 
writing about until the end 
credits have played out, but 
Car 54, Where Are You? was 
a special case: I left ten min¬ 
utes after its inept, out-of- 
touch, out-of-synch, out-of-gas 
opening sequence made it 
clear that this was a big mess, 
one that would only get much 
worse, one that might make 
the new Richard Gere/Sharon 
Stone vehicle Intersection 
look like Citizen Kane. To 
test my theory, I slipped over 
to the Regency II, and I was 
right. Scary. Anyone who 
thinks Sharon Stone can act 
(we already know her co-star 
can’t) is cordially invited to 
watch this pic — Lolita Davi¬ 
dovich blows her off the 
screen. 

Miss ’em both. 

—Daniel Mangin 


ACT's'Uncle Vanya' 

Scandalous 

Revelations 


by John F. Karr 

W hoa! A sexy, near¬ 
ly scandalous pro¬ 
duction of 

Chekhov’s Uncle 
Vanya — who’d have thought 
it possible! Or knew that 
Vanya could be as immedi¬ 
ate and physical as the ver¬ 
sion directed by ACT Artistic 
Director Carey Perloff, now 
at the Marines Memorial The¬ 
atre. Did we even think for a 
moment that this hoary old 
play could be shocking until 
Ms. Perloff dusted it off, had 
Paul Schmidt translate it into 
a vernacular that catches the 
snappy freshness the original 
must have had in 1899, and 
staged it in a production that 
seems, in all its revelatory as¬ 
pects, a world premiere? 

Here is a Vanya so fresh 
that it elicits not only belly 
laughs but also gasps of disbe¬ 
lief over its sexuality and 
playfulness — and, finally, 
murmurs of assent from its 
audience. And I saw it with 
the famously complacent 
blue-haired ladies of matinee 
day at that. 

Uncle Vanya is the story 
of what happens to a group of 
people when their lives are 
restricted, in this instance, to 
a barely thriving provincial 
farm. Sexual need is great, 
and unmet; ambitions and 
dreams, also unmet, turn ran¬ 
corous; and love, both requit¬ 
ed and not, is reduced over its 
own flame to a sadly con¬ 
gealed morass of short-circuit¬ 
ed passion. 

It’s all heartbreakingly fun¬ 
ny. Chekhov zeroes in on our 
common demons of destruc¬ 
tion, shows them in full force, 
and then reveals the quiet 
moments of desperate, brave 
loneliness in which we sur¬ 
vive them. With eloquent and 
surprisingly timely pleas, he 
sees us being destroyed in the 
same callous way as our natu¬ 
ral resources, and that note of 
environmentalism is just one 
more previously unheard ma¬ 


jor element that emerges 
afresh from Perloffs dusting 
off. 

Sexy Farce 

Uncle Vanya is a farce as 
well as a tragedy; Perloff also 
reveals it as a very sexy play. 
Perloff’s characters come 
upon each other in scan¬ 
dalous, shocking moments. 
Even when drunk and fool¬ 
ishly celebrating a moment’s 
freedom, two men can be 
thrown together in breathless 
physical intimacy. 

Perhaps because of these 
impending surprises, Perloff 
starts her version slow. Too 


slow for me; the first act 
seems becalmed. But the ex¬ 
cellence of the ensemble won 
me over, followed soon 
enough by growing apprecia¬ 
tion of Perloff s re-envisioning 
of the play. 

Maybe the director’s only 
providing time for us to di¬ 
gest Kate Edmunds’ wonder¬ 
ful set, a colorful sort of 
Kandinsky in Wonderland, 
where indoors and outdoors 
are intermingled, upstairs be¬ 
comes downstairs without de¬ 
marcation, and windows and 
doors sprout in new and nov¬ 
el locations and sizes. It’s a 
place as expansive as our 
hopes, yet as confined as our 
experience. 

What Perloff has done 
with this set, the translation, 
and her impeccable direction 
is to release the play from the 
accretion of realistic trappings 
that have weighed it down. 
Here, there’s not much more 
than a samovar, a settee, and 
Beaver Bauer’s handsome cos¬ 
tumes. When thus allowed 
more air, the play burns 
brighter than ever before. 

Only Perloffs request that 
her cast naturalistically act 
their way through their 
monologues seems out of 
step. Wouldn’t it have been 
more in line with her concep¬ 
tion, as startlingly fresh and 



Tony Amendola, right and friend, Wendell Pierce, left, admire 
a life beyond their reach in Uncle Vanya. 


modern as the other elements 
of the production, if they ad¬ 
dressed the audience directly? 
Swell Cast 

The cast is swell. Sharon 
Omi is a wonder as Sonya, 
her love and youth at first 
bursting out, her subsequent 
disappointment held tight and 
hurting all the more. Vilma 
Silva’s Yelena is a subtle cre¬ 
ation, keeping us guessing 
about her needs until a cru¬ 
cial moment. Roberta Calla¬ 
han, with her wounded eyes 
and Cheshire cat smile, is a 
knowing nurse. Wendell 
Pierce as the family doctor 
holds the greatest surprises, 
whether revealing his sexual 
desire to Yelena or drunkenly 
dancing with Vanya, throw¬ 
ing himself on top of the man 


in a wild, sexy moment. 

Vanya is played by Tony 
Amendola, who, as usual, 
blazes. What a thrill, earning 
a commingled gasp, laugh 
and a tear, when he throws 
himself in denunciation 
against his towering elder, 
only to clasp him in impotent 
despair. The subsequent 
scenes in which he brandishes 
a pistol against the man have 
never been more riotous. 
Amendola’s is a memorable 
Vanya in a memorable 
Vanya. 

This is an Uncle Vanya to 
be cherished, lovingly crafted 
by wise artists. I wish 
Chekhov could see it. ▼ 

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Books 


Bitter Brew 

The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, 

edited by Margaret Reynolds; Penguin, $27.50 


by Deborah Peifer 

T he recently released 
Penguin Book of Les¬ 
bian Short Stories 
might be more accu¬ 
rately titled The Penguin 
Book of Lost, Lonely, and 
Lurid Lesbians. Editor Mar¬ 
garet Reynolds has gathered 
works by 32 women, and in 
so doing raises serious ques¬ 
tions about the whole idea of 
identity and identity politics. 
In her introduction, Reynolds 
defines lesbian writing as 
“writingwhich exhibits, with¬ 
in the confines of the text it¬ 
self, something which makes 
it distinctively about, or for, 
or out of lesbian experience... 
Many of the writers in this 
collection are lesbian; some of 
them are heterosexual; some 
of them would call them¬ 
selves bisexual; some would 
choose to call themselves by 
none of these names. Who 
knows? Who cares?” 


Well, to start with, I do. 
I’m very concerned that, giv¬ 
en Reynolds’ definition, Nor¬ 
man Mailer and Phyllis 
Schlafly could soon write and 
publish lesbian fiction. And if 
anyone can write something 
called lesbian fiction, does the 
term still have meaning? We 
name ourselves to claim com¬ 
monality with others of our 


kind. I have to think that, un¬ 
til being a lesbian has no po¬ 
litical significance, the use of 
the word had better be 
charged with more meaning 
than Reynolds suggests. 

Having said that, I must 
confess that this is not a very 
good collection of anything. 
My first objection is that 
some of the stories in the 
book are excerpts from 
longer works. A chapter from 
a novel is not a short story, 
but Reynolds includes several 
such extracts in this volume, 
suggesting that there were 



not enough worthy short sto¬ 
ries to fill a book. And yet I 
could name several excellent 
collections of short fiction 
written by lesbians. Where 
was Reynolds looking, I won¬ 
der? 


Many tragic lesbians 

My second objection is to 
the choices themselves. Thir¬ 
teen ot the 32 pieces were 
written before Stonewall, and 
most of these are of the tragic 
lesbian, hidden lesbian, or 


tragic-hidden lesbian genre. 
Typical of this dark and de¬ 
pressing view of lesbian life is 
an excerpt from an Ann Ban- 
non pulp novel from the ’50s 
in which Laura tries “to make 
herself sound normal and or¬ 
dinary when her whole body 
was begging for strange pas¬ 
sion, for forbidden release.” 
Several of the later pieces are 
set in pre-Stonewall times, so 
there are even more hidden 
and tragic lesbians. 


Of course, there is also a 
story set in 19th-century Eng¬ 
land (I’m guessing, based on a 
few obscure clues in the text) 
in which there are lesbians 
everywhere who have “com¬ 
ing out balls” and who are 
just happy as clams and have 
attitudes toward sexuality 
that seem remarkably similar 
to those of late 20th-century 
America. 

There are some worthy 
selections — by Anna Livia 
and Jewelle Gomez, among a 
very few — but for $27.50, you 
could buy the editions in 
which these stories originally 
appeared and end up with a 
whole lot more bang for the 
buck. 


I suspect that, had this col¬ 
lection come out 25 years ago, 
it might have had some value. 
In 1994, however, it looks like 
little more than a mainstream 
publisher’s attempt to cash in 
on lesbian chic. Don’t let Pen¬ 
guin get away with this. T 




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Tea and Crumpets 

The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories, 

edited by David Leavitt & Mark Mitchell; Viking, $27.50 


by Roberto Friedman 

I n his introduction to 
The Penguin Book of 
Gay Short Stories, the 
new anthology he edit¬ 
ed with Mark Mitchell, David 
Leavitt congratulates himself 
for not excluding women or 
heterosexual male writers 
from his collection. The col¬ 
lection of 39 stories does in¬ 
clude choices which expand 
the parameters of gay men’s 
literature. Good work is good 
work, regardless of the sexu¬ 
ality of the author. More’s the 
pity the overall range seems 
so narrow. 

Partner Mitchell is strange¬ 
ly missing from the introduc¬ 
tion, traditionally the place 
for an editor to stake out his 
identity and explain his choic¬ 
es. But the intro to this sup¬ 
posedly collaborative affair is 
unmistakably an excursion in 
the first person, singular. 
Leavitt begins by lamenting 
his choices of gay fiction 
while casting around as a 
teenager in the ’70s. He con¬ 
veys his disdain for the popu¬ 
lar gay novels then available, 
specifically Andrew Holler- 
an’s Dancer From The Dance 
and the Gordon Merrick ro¬ 
mances ( The Lord Won’t 
Mind, etc.) He is appropriate¬ 
ly leery of both hack 
Harlequin-style novels and 
beauty-worshipping gay ghet¬ 
to fiction as the only models 
apparently available to him 
then; but I wonder that in his 
formative years he never 
found Genet’s Our Lady of 
the Flowers, or Burroughs’s 
Naked Lunch or The Wild 



Boys. Either would have of¬ 
fered a definite alternative to 
the Fire Island set. 

But one gets the impres¬ 
sion that Leavitt would prefer 
all gay fiction to be as liter¬ 
ary, as polite as the work of 
E.M. Forster, his favorite 
writer. Certainly the British, 
the well-bred and the sexually 
understated predominate in 
his anthology. The first 200 
pages alone are almost entire¬ 
ly given over to stuffy British 
writers, starting with D.H. 
Lawrence and proceeding to 
Graham Greene. 


The inclusion of stories 
about gay men by straight 
writers is a good, even a 
courageous idea in the ab¬ 
stract, but what on earth is 
Greene’s fag-hating “May We 
Borrow Your Husband?” do¬ 
ing in this book, while so 
much good work by genuine¬ 


ly gay writers goes unno¬ 
ticed? Do we really need to 
make room for stories that 
perpetuate all those old 
swishing, predator stereo¬ 
types? 

As you would expect from 
a 655-page collection, there is 
much good stuff in the Pen¬ 
guin: old favorites like 
Forster’s “Arthur Snatchfold,” 
and contemporary classics 
like Allen Gurganus’s “Adult 
Art.” But the overall editorial 
vision rankles me, especially 
given that the anthology 
promises to become a stan¬ 
dard, paperbacked and kept 
in print. For one thing, a 
number of the pieces are not 
short stories at all, but ex¬ 
cerpts from novels or mem¬ 
oirs. That’s fine in an om¬ 
nibus of gay fiction, but why 
are they in a book dedicated 
in its very title to gay short 
stories? 


Been there, done that 

Also, many of the book’s 
showcase selections — 
Forster’s “Snatchfold,” Isher- 
wood’s Berlin story, James 
Purdy’s excellent “Some of 
These Days,” Gurganus’s 
“Adult Art,” Richard Mc¬ 
Cann’s “My Mother’s Clothes: 
The School of Beauty and 
Shame” — have already 
graced several earlier, perfect¬ 
ly good gay anthologies. If 
you are familiar with the pio¬ 
neering The Other Persua¬ 
sion, or the Men On Men se¬ 
ries, or the Calamus collec¬ 
tion, or Edmund White’s re¬ 
cent Faber Book of Gay 
Short Fiction, this latest en- 
(Continued on next page) 
















Books 


Truth by the Ton 

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Soci¬ 
ety, by Peter McWilliams; 817 



by Jim Coughenour 

P eter McWilliams’ fat 
book on personal 
freedom, Ain’t No¬ 
body’s Business If 
You Do, gives every indica¬ 
tion of being the right book 
written by the wrong person 
in the wrong way. It’s got a 
silly cover; it’s about five 
times too long; and its prose 
is an uneven mixture of pam¬ 
phleteer rhetoric and indul¬ 
gent talk-show host humor. 
McWilliams, better known for 
his books on computers and 
“personal growth,” admits as 
much: “I’ve been waiting for 
years for someone to write 
this book/ he writes, ‘If 
someone had, I wouldn’t have 
had to; Since no one has, I 
did.” 

He could have done much 
worse. Ain’t Nobody’s Busi¬ 
ness If You Do deserves 
more respect than it invites. 
It’s a genuinely interesting 
(and often genuinely enter¬ 
taining) book that makes a 
persuasive case for 
McWilliams’ main argument, 
which is, to paraphrase: You 


pages, $27.00. 


should be allowed to do what¬ 
ever you want with your own 
person and property, as long 
as you don’t physically harm 
the person or property of an¬ 
other. 

McWilliams doesn’t shy 
away from the implications of 
his position, which embraces 
the untrammeled right of any 
consenting adult to partici¬ 
pate in prostitution, sodomy, 
the recreational, religious or 
regenerative use of drugs, to 
collect pornography or join a 
cult, to cross-dress or go 
naked or to commit suicide. If 
the parties involved consent 
to such activities, McWilliams 
argues with surprising sanity, 
it ain’t nobody’s business but 
their own. 

Appeal to common sense 

This is not a new position, 
as McWilliams knows. It’s im¬ 
plicit in the Enlightenment 
belief in “natural rights” (en¬ 
shrined in the U.S. Constitu¬ 
tion and its Bill of Rights); it’s 
explicit in the work of 
philosophers like John Stuart 
Mill, who wrote in his famous 
essay On Liberty that “the 


only purpose for which power 
can be rightfully exercised 
over any member of a civi¬ 
lized community against his 
will is to prevent harm to oth¬ 
ers. His own good, either 
physical or moral, is not a suf¬ 
ficient warrant.” 

McWilliams builds upon 
Mill’s argument in two ways. 
First, he appeals to his read¬ 
ers’ common sense, pointing 
out the manifest absurdity of 
punishing consensual acts: the 
gross expense ($50 billion per 
year) and injustice of enforc¬ 
ing these laws; the ways they 
actually promote real crime; 
and the hypocrisy of punish¬ 
ing consensual acts when 
“cigarettes do more damage 
and cause more deaths than 
all of the consensual crimes 
combined.” Such laws also 
distract the public from more 
pressing issues and “create a 
society of fear, hatred, big¬ 
otry, oppression, and confor¬ 
mity.” McWilliams’ bulleted 
lists of statistics are as con¬ 
vincing as they are depress¬ 
ing. 

But the author knows bet¬ 
ter than to try to make his 


case with statistics alone. As 
he turns to the case against 
each consensual crime, he bol¬ 


sters his position with a mass 
of historical detail, demon- 
(Continued on page 51) 


Tea 

(Continued from previous page) 

try in the anthology market 
may leave you with a feeling 
of deja vu. 

A press release informs me 
that nearly one third of the 
contributions were written 
expressly for this publication, 
but which ones? The stories’ 
dates of publication and com¬ 
position are not cited, a real 
problem when trying to place 
them historically or in the 
context of their authors’ 
work. 

Can you tell I was a bit ex¬ 
asperated by this book? No 
denying the real delights in 
its pages — Desmond Hogan’s 
lyrical “Jimmy,” Edmund 
White’s memoir-like 

“Reprise,” David Plante’s ex¬ 
otic “The Princess from 
Africa.” There are duds, as 
well, such as a hopelessly 
melodramatic story by Noel 
Coward that might be of 
some interest as a curio but 
only proves the playwright of 
sparkling repartee had no 
idea how to pace a short sto¬ 
ry. Perhaps the biggest sur¬ 
prise is Larry Kramer’s “Mrs. 
Teffilin,” an empathetic por¬ 
trait of elderly Jewish culture 
convincingly rendered, but 
homosexuality figures into 
the story only as a plot de¬ 
vice, and a far-fetched one at 
that. I assume the piece dates 
from the days before Kramer 
became reigning diva of rage 
queens, but then again, 
there’s no year cited, so I 
can’t know for sure. 

There are no West Coast 
writers deemed worthy of in¬ 
clusion, unless you count 
Leavitt himself, who was 
raised in Palo Alto, and I 
don’t. Why choose Peter 
Wells (from New Zealand) 
and not Peter Weltner? Why 
Bernard Cooper and not Den¬ 
nis Cooper? The answer 
seems to lie in Leavitt’s (and 
Mitchell’s?) essentially conser¬ 
vative taste, whereby tea and 
crumpets with Barbara Pym 
appeals more to some nostal¬ 
gic literary craving than any 
venture into New Narrative 
work. Does the road out of 
Fire Island necessarily run 


straight to the Continent? A 
list of obvious omissions 
among gay writers living and 
working in America would 
fill the column. 

Odd inclusion 

Some choices are down¬ 
right puzzling. The only con¬ 
tributor granted two stories, 
A.M. Homes, is the author of 
a terrific short novel, Jack, 
written from the point of 
view of a teenage boy who 
finds out his dad is gay. 
Homes mimics the language, 
the thought process, the very 
inner life of male adolescence 
remarkably well, considering 
she’s never been one. But 
Jack is not represented here, 
and her story “A Real Doll,” 
while a comic treat, has little 
to do with gay themes, and 
everything to do with the fan¬ 
tasy sex life a boy enacts with 
his sister’s Barbie Doll. What 
makes the editors’ decision 
that they must include it in a 
volume underrepresentative 
of alternative gay fiction even 
more puzzling is their inclu¬ 
sion, as well, of Ms. Homes’s 
“The Whiz Kids,” which does 
concern sexual exploration 
between boys. It also ends the 
book on a jarring note, the 
boys’ sexual degradation of a 
female friend. Now that’s not 
a scene in which most queer 
men care to indulge. 

Allen Barnett’s “The 
Times as It Knows Us,” an 
affecting story of the continu¬ 
ing onslaught, is one of the 
most relevant and finely 
tuned pieces here. Ironically, 
its cast of Manhattanite gays 
sharing a house on Fire Is¬ 
land exactly replicates the 
scenario of the ’70s novel 
Leavitt so disdains. In Bar¬ 
nett’s story, tea dance is inci¬ 
dental to the real subject, 
which is how we care for 
each other in the midst of 
devastating crisis — or don’t. 
Mr. Leavitt should note that 
the strengths of Barnett’s sto¬ 
ry are very similar to that ear¬ 
lier Island chronicle, the sem¬ 
inal if slick Dancer. Both 
works faithfully capture, in 
prose, the type of dish queer 
men do pass around about 
each other — in Holleran’s 


case, while in the throes of 
hedonist excess; in Barnett’s, 
as we all try to cope with the 
impossible hand AIDS has 
dealt. 

I was certainly glad, as I 
too was a gay teen in the’70s, 
that Dancer From The Dance 


was around for me to read, 
even given Leavitt’s valid 
reservations about its subtext, 
and even if I was as far from 
a timeshare in the Pines then 
as I am now. On the other 
hand, Leavitt has succeeded 
in achieving a life worthy of 


BAY AREA REPORTER 


the middle class’s loftiest aspi¬ 
rations. Is it that the shallow¬ 
ness he now so despises in 
the Merrick books, in Dancer, 
is somehow threatening in its 
familiarity? Or are trips down 
Anglophile memory lane ad¬ 
venturous enough? ▼ 


FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 39 














Community 


Body 


(Continued from page 33) 

elists include Brenda Wong 
Aoki, Christine Tamblyn, 
Saidiya Hartman, Catherine 
Lord and Katia Noyes. 

In a talk entitled, “Diagnos¬ 
ing the Female Body: Activist 
Art, Biopolitics and Networks 
of Resistance,” presenters 
Kathy High, Marian Winsryg, 
Crystal Mason, Maria St. John 
and Carla Kirkwood will look 
at the ways in which the fe¬ 
male body has been con¬ 
trolled through definition by 
the medical profession and 
public health policies. In addi¬ 
tion, they will examine the 
ideologies and strategies used 
to challenge biomedical poli¬ 
tics. 

Zoey Kroll of The LAB, 
one of the curators of Ad¬ 
dressing Herself, which runs 
through March 5 at the LAB 
Gallery, recently spoke with 
the Bay Area Reporter about 
the exhibition and its exami¬ 
nation of themes of gender 
commodification, representa¬ 
tion and transformation. She 
remarks that “the show is 
about the female body on dis¬ 
play, the refashioning and re¬ 
vising of the body.” It’s a 
show of working artists and 
activists that complements 
the discussion and theory gen¬ 
erated by “The Illustrated 
Woman” conference. 

Walking museum 

One of the more unusual 
contributions to this year’s 
conference will be Orlan’s 
performance/lecture Opera- 
tion-Reussie, which Kroll 
says demonstrates “how histo¬ 
ry impacts the body.” This 
self-as-artistic-process reveals 
Orlan’s ongoing project of 
“self-transformation” in which 


the artist, through a series of 
plastic surgery operations, re¬ 
models herself to resemble 
well-known images of women 
in Western art history: she 
has Venus’ chin, Europa’s 
lips, Diana’s eyes, Psyche’s 
nose, Mona Lisa’s forehead. 
Works by Stephanie Cress, 
Deborah Edwards, Marisa 
Hernandez, H. Len Keller, 
Oona Nelson, Jann Nunn, 
Melissa Pokorny and Millie 
Wilson will also be featured 
in the exhibition. 

In discussing the impor¬ 
tance of the conference, Kroll 
emphasizes how important it 
is that women “subvert cul¬ 
tural codes that are read as 
‘feminine’ and recreate im¬ 
ages of ourselves, while ac¬ 
knowledging the history of 
our representation — even 
though it’s a limited depiction 
- and play with it.” 

Both the conference and 
exhibition will allow partici¬ 
pants to explore the manifold 
contradictions that surround 
images of women in society 
today: why we continue to 
strive for beauty and indepen¬ 
dence in cultures whose 
taboos condemn us for doing 
so; the persistence of myths 
about female “uncleanliness”; 
and the cultural conditioning 
we succumb to in order to be 
desirable, all the while su- 
pressing desire. This meeting 
of artists and artwork is an 
opportunity to reclaim both 
images of ourselves and our 
desires. ▼ 

Editor’s note: For informa¬ 
tion about “The Illustrated 
Woman” and the exhibition, 
Addressing Herself, call The 
LAB at (415) 346-4063. Con¬ 
ference tickets may be pur¬ 
chased through the Center 
for the Arts at (415) 978- 
ARTS/978-2787. 


Women's Critical Condition 


Critical Condition: Women on the Edge of Violence, 
edited by Amy Scholder; City Lights Books; $10.95 


by Noreen C. Barnes 


T 


helma and Louise 
had to die. Of course. 

Or, at least that’s 
what appears to have 
happened. The images of Su¬ 
san Sarandon and Geena 
Davis, pawned off as bud¬ 
ding feminists who fight back 
(with guns, not words), pene¬ 
trated our culture — and me¬ 
dia commentators’ minds — 
like few other movie charac¬ 
ters from recent history. For 
a time, all the chatter con¬ 
vinced women that a positive, 
pro-feminist film had finally 
been produced by main¬ 
stream Hollywood. Oddly, the 
contrast between the romanti¬ 
cized view offered by that 
film and the reality of women 
today is startling. But, as Amy 
Scholder, editor of Critical 
Condition: Women on the 
Edge of Violence, points out, 
Thelma and Louise became 
powerful icons because 
“women are looking for im¬ 
ages of power and self-deter¬ 
mination.” 

Scholder’s book is a collec¬ 
tion of excerpts from panel 
discussions, performances and 
presentations given at last 
year’s first Feminist Activism 
and Art conference, co-spon¬ 
sored by The LAB and SF 
Camerawork. Last year’s con¬ 
ferees considered, among oth¬ 
er things, how violence inter¬ 
sects with race, class, gender 
and sexuality and examined 
such topics as women and 
power, women who kill, and 



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women as victims of domestic 
violence. 

In a recent interview with 
B.A.R., Scholder spoke about 
how she compiled the materi¬ 
al from the forums, lectures 
and performances and shaped 
it to reflect the two central, 
interconnected themes of the 
conference: domestic vio¬ 
lence/sexual abuse and wom¬ 
en who kill: “What to me was 
so moving, shocking and dis¬ 
turbing about putting the 
book together was that I 
couldn’t edit a work about 
women who kill without also 
considering domestic violence 
and sexual abuse.” The inex¬ 
orable link of the two “is a 
fact that is hard for people to 
accept.” The Wuornos case 
exemplifies that perfectly. 
The average person can’t em¬ 
pathize with a prostitute be¬ 
ing raped — there is a huge 
gulf in this culture, which is 
one reason why justice is pre¬ 
vented.” 

Critical Condition (the ti¬ 
tle aptly describes, in medical 
metaphor, the political and so¬ 
cial position of women), is 
prefaced by a list of chilling 
statistics: a woman is assault¬ 
ed and beaten every 15 sec¬ 
onds; raped every 1.3 min¬ 
utes; nearly 40 percent of 
women are sexually abused 
by their 18th birthday; most 
women in prison are poor 
and have children; women 
serve twice as long in prison 
than men for murdering their 
spouses. Scholder’s purpose 
in starting the book this way 
was to avoid making vague 
philosophical statements 
about violence against women 
and to instead bluntly illus¬ 
trate how pervasive violence 
is in women’s lives. 

At last year’s Feminist Ac¬ 
tivism and Art conference, 
two events from recent histo¬ 
ry were frequently referred to 
in the works of the presen¬ 
ters: the conviction of “serial 
killer” Wuornos, and the un¬ 
solved murders of 45 women 
in San Diego, the famous 
“NHI” case, the title being a 
police code lor “No Humans 
Involved, a reierence to the 
seeming marginality of the 


victims. 

The response of artists to 
“NHI” was to make women 
visible: Carla Kirkwood per¬ 
formed an autobiographical 
monologue, “Many Women 
Involved,” while the “No Hu¬ 
mans Involved” public art 
project, a collaboration of five 
artists, meditated on the vic¬ 
tims in a series of presenta¬ 
tions consisting of billboards, 
performances, books, discus¬ 
sions and photographs of vic¬ 
tims and women representing 
those for whom there were 
no photographs. By using 
stand-ins for the murdered 
women, the “NHI” project’s 
Elizabeth Sisco explains that 
the project, “provided a mes¬ 
sage of solidarity with the 
murdered women and with 
all women in the community. 
It was a public acknowledge¬ 
ment that violence against 
one woman is a threat to all 
women, and that to brand vic¬ 
tims of violent sexual assault 
as prostitutes, drug addicts 
and transients stifles genuine 
public concern and gives a 
false sense of assurance to 
other women.” 

Included in the visual art 
of Critical Condition are pho¬ 
tographs of Liz Claiborne 
Inc.’s Domestic Violence 
Awareness Campaign, Janet 
Dodson’s Prison Project, and 
Christine Cobaugh’s stark, un¬ 
settling “Disembodied Beach 
Series.” The book also pro¬ 
vides excerpts from the con¬ 
ference’s other provocative 
panel discussions, which cov¬ 
ered a variety of topics in¬ 
cluding media and racism and 
sexual abuse and creativity. 
Also included is the moving 
poetry of Wanda Coleman 
and Sapphire and a perfor¬ 
mance piece by Dee Russell, 
all of it articulating the expe¬ 
rience of violence, misogyny 
and racism. 

Scholder has done an ex¬ 
cellent job in Critical Condi 
tion illuminating the con 
cerns of women today as stat 
ed by women. It is an honest, 
therefore indispensable, look 
at subjects most people prefer 
to look at through rose-col¬ 
ored glasses. ▼ 


BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 40 















Profiles 


(Continued from page 33) 

teering for plastic surgery. 
Working on her image, she 
has seized control of the 
means of its production. Re¬ 
jecting mass-market facial 
norms, she’s designed her 
own radical make-over, in¬ 
cluding cheek implants insert¬ 
ed under her eyebrows, re¬ 
sulting in a look she describes 
as part Star Trek and part 
Mona Lisa. Transforming the 
operating room into a perfor¬ 
mance space, Orlan has 
dressed her doctors in design¬ 
er costumes and brought in a 
rapper, a dancer and a signer 
to perform along with her. 
She’s even read bits of 
French philosophy mid-oper¬ 
ation in order to throw an in¬ 
tellectual light on the flesh- 
and-blood proceedings. 



Ask Michael Jackson 

One of the theories behind 
her practice, to paraphrase 
the text by Eugnie Lemoine 
Leuccioni that inspired her 
work, goes something like 
this: “The skin is deceptive 
and disappointing because 
one never is what one has.“ 
In other words, although you 
may be what you eat, you 
never look like how you feel. 
Just ask Michael Jackson. 

“I said to myself,” Orlan 
said to me in French over the 
phone from New York, “in 
our day and age it was possi¬ 
ble to narrow that gap. It’s a 
question of communication, of 
bringing the internal image 
closer to the external image.” 
Using an example near and 
dear to habitues of the Mother 
lode, she explained: “If a 
man feels like a woman, he 
wants other people to see him 
as a woman. And there’s a 
way to do that. I very often 
say that I’m a female-to-fe- 
male transsexual.” 

Four years ago, Orlan de¬ 
cided that what she felt she 
ought to look like was a com¬ 
puter-generated composite of 
a handful of female icons 
from French and Italian 
paintings, including Botticel¬ 
li’s Venus and the Mona Lisa. 
“What I’m doing is a self-por¬ 
trait, a psychological self-por¬ 
trait,” she said “which is at 
once traditional and non-tradi- 
tional because it’s so radical, 
being inscribed directly into 


my flesh using cutting-edge 
technology. That’s why it’s 
problematic, why it raises 
questions. If I did it the usual 
way we wouldn’t be here.” 

If she did it the usual way, 
we wouldn’t have to watch. 
She’d go away, like any self- 
respecting movie star or 
politician, and not come back 
until she was a finished prod¬ 
uct. But this living objet —or 
do I mean, sujet d’art — is 
nothing if not process-oriented. 
A recent appearance under the 
surgeon’s knife, last Novem¬ 
ber in New York, was broad¬ 
cast by satellite to interactive 
hook-ups in such far-flung 
places as Paris, Riga and 
Tokyo. Her subsequent show 
at the Sandra Gering Gallery 
in Manhattan featured daily 
state-of-the-artist photos of her 
convalescing, self-portrait self. 

“The concept was,” ex¬ 
plains Orlan, “I got up. I 
didn’t brush my hair. I didn’t 
put on make-up. I didn’t do 
anything. And I got in front 
of the lense. At first, all ban¬ 
daged up, then later, bruised 
and swollen. You can imag¬ 
ine. Like a battered woman, 
you might say.” Plus she dyed 
her hair black, leaving half 
her bangs bleached yellow 
and the other half dark blue. 

Uncomfortable 

If Orlan had a last name, 
her middle name would be 
Radical. She has not lost 
touch with her artistic begin¬ 
nings in the 70s, the good old 
days of Fluxus and happen¬ 
ings, when life was art and 
art was life and nobody could 
tell the difference. “I’m trying 
to take those ingredients — 
without being a has-been - 
and make a 21st-century per¬ 
formance using modern 
means that reconnects with 
that weight, that strength, 
that discomfort.” 

Refusing the role of the 
suffering artist, she swears 
she designs her operations to 
be as unmasochistic as possi¬ 
ble. Nevertheless, she’s no 
softie. “I hate comfortable 
art,” she says. “I hate art that’s 
meant as a decoration, that’s 
like house plants. We already 
have that at home. We have 
aquariums and I think that’s 
great, but enough is enough. 
The art that interests me is 
art that upsets how we think 
about things, that opens our 
eyes. So my work is very un¬ 
comfortable for me and very 
uncomfortable for the public 
as well.” ▼ 

Editor’s note: Orlan will give 
a non-operative performance 
and lecture as part of “The 
Illustrated Woman: The Sec¬ 
ond Annual Conference on 
Feminist Activism and Art,” 
Saturday, February 5 at 8pm 
at Center for the Arts Forum, 
701 Mission Street. Tickets 
are $15 general and $12 stu¬ 
dents. For information, call 
The LAB, 346-4063. 


Naiad Shorts 

The Romantic Naiad; 

Edited by Katherine V. Forrest and Barbara Grier; Naiad, $14.95 

The Romantic Naiad is the latest anthology in what I hope 
will be a continuing series of short pieces by Naiad writers. It 
is an impressive collection indeed. Consider the opening of “Sign 
Language,” by Penny Sumner: “Roses are red, apples too. This 
being about True Love there will, of course, be roses. But the ap¬ 
ples come first: they were my idea” — a lovely introduction to a 
sweet little story. Jennifer Fulton writes a bizarre, and ultimate¬ 
ly, hilarious tale of a lesbian who kidnaps a woman in order to 
save her from becoming “The Bride.” Ranging in tone from 
sweet to steamy, the stories in this anthology will provide 
unmixed delight. T 

—Deborah Peifer 



Me'Shell 

(Continued from page 33) 


teners if they come out. The 
music press would seem to in¬ 
dicate that hip-hop, in partic¬ 
ular, has a problem with gay 
musicians. Likewise, homo¬ 
phobia in black musical cir¬ 
cles has become a front-page 
issue. But while Me’Shell ac¬ 
knowledges that a problem 
exists, she doesn’t think it’s 
insurmountable. 

“I kind of grew up in an 
urban situation,” said 
Me’Shell. “I know where the 
rappers are coming from. Be¬ 
ing a man is a precious thing, 
but they really don’t know 
what it means to be a man. 
There’s a problem, but some¬ 
one just needs to take the 
time to say ‘What’s up with 
that? What makes you feel 
that way?”’ 

Lesbian chic 

Me’Shell has mixed feel¬ 
ings about another media 
phenomenon that hits close to 
home: Lesbian chic. 

“It has pros and cons, just 
like anything else. It’s sort of 
great that you get to see ‘out’ 
lesbians who are intelligent, 
speak well, and doing things. 
I mean, I think America was 
bombarded with negative im¬ 
ages of lesbians. Like, they’d 
go to parades and take pic¬ 
tures of the most obscure 
things. And that’s all people 
would see, flamboyant bare¬ 
breasted women, which isn’t 
a representation of lesbianism 
as a whole. I think it’s great 
to see another side. 


Me'Shell: "It's no big deal.'' 

“But otherwise, I think it’s 
a game, like propaganda. All 
of a sudden it’s cool to have 
lesbian friends, or have a les¬ 
bian look. And that’s utter 
bullshit.” 

In terms of being gay, 
Me’Shell said “she’s not inter¬ 
ested in being a lesbian 
poster child,” only that she 
“has nothing to hide.” 

“It’s very much a part of 
me, and it doesn’t affect my 
personality. I mean it just is 
me,” she said. “I am Me’Shell 
NdegeOcello. I play bass, 
write music and sing. Oh, and 
I happen to be a lesbian. 
Maybe I can help people see 
it in a different light. It’s real¬ 
ly no big thing.” 


Plantation Lullabies has 
been out since November and 
has earned unusual critical ac¬ 
claim. Me’Shell’s music 
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tures with steamy funk atti¬ 
tude and growling husky vo¬ 
cals. Her music is an uncom¬ 
fortable blend of rage and 
peace, an apparent contradic¬ 
tion that Me’Shell thrives on. 

“I don’t think I’m political. 
I try not to deal with anything 
in the political system, be¬ 
cause it doesn’t work for me 
as a black person,” she said. 
“Black love in the midst of 
revolution — to love myself 
and to love other people — 
that’s what I think the album 
is about.” ▼ 



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BAY AREA REPORTER 

SPORTS 

AND FITNESS 


National Tennis Circuit '94 



by Gary Sutton 

N ot to be outdone by 
the pros, the gay 
and lesbian tennis 
community has its 
own national tennis circuit. 
Indeed, if the pros were to 
see what we have they would 
be impressed not only with 
the caliber of play, but with 
the camaraderie and spirit of 
good will shared by partici¬ 
pants. 

The list of cities across 
America which host annual 
national tournaments is grow¬ 
ing every year. It all began 14 
years ago when Dallas’ Oak 
Lawn Tennis Association in¬ 
vited players from other clubs 
to join them in a tournament. 
Each year the competition at 
the national level has become 
better and better as new peo¬ 
ple have learned the circuit 
and begun to test their skills. 

Among the many positive 
aspects of the tournaments is 
that they offer divisions for 
players of all levels of ability 
— from teaching pros to those 
just beginning to appreciate 
the sport’s appeal. This allows 
even beginner or intermedi¬ 
ate players to experience the 
fun and excitement of nation¬ 
al tournaments. There are, 
typically, divisions for women 
and men, as well as mixed 
doubles events at many of the 
tournaments. 

This year features a record 
14 events, highlighted by the 


Gay Games in June. The year 
gets underway in February 
with the only clay court tour¬ 
nament on the circuit, spon¬ 
sored by the South Florida 
Tennis Club in Ft. Laud¬ 
erdale. This popular tourna¬ 
ment attracts a large crowd 
because its host town is in a 
part of the country that pro¬ 
vides for many an ideal win¬ 
ter get-away. Plus, its a fun 
and well organized tourna¬ 
ment. 

A new club formed in LA 
is next on the schedule with a 
tournament scheduled for the 
first weekend in April. Fol¬ 
lowing that, Minneapolis will 
host its first tournament May 
14-16th. 

Memorial Day weekend, 
May 28-30th, will feature two 
events. The largest is the San 
Francisco club’s event, called 
the U.S. Gay Open. It will be 
the 14th such annual event, 
and with the large number of 
women players in the Bay 
Area, it should be a real draw 
for women tournament play¬ 
ers. 

Louisville, Kentucky is 
scheduled to host its inaugu¬ 
ral tournament over the 
Memorial Day weekend as 
well. These tournaments are 
expected to draw unusually 
large crowds this year be¬ 
cause they will serve as a 
“warm up’’ for the Gay 
Games unfolding three weeks 
later. 

The tennis highlight of 


1994, of course, will be the 
Gay Games in New York, 
June 18-25th. This event will 
host divisions for tennis play¬ 
ers according to age and level 
of ability. 

Those who don’t leave 
New York with a medal 
around their neck may want 
to try the San Diego tourna¬ 
ment over the 4th of July 
weekend for another chance 
at winning a medal. Tradi¬ 
tionally, the San Diego event 
is one of the best run on the 
circuit. It attracts a strong 
field of players, particularly 
from California. 

It’s not snowing in Chicago 
in August, but players get to 
experience the only indoor 
tournament on the circuit, 
hosted by their club August 5- 
7th. 

Players have their choice 
of three tournaments over the 
September Labor Day week¬ 
end: the Los Angeles Tennis 
Association’s National Cham¬ 
pionship; Atlanta’s Peach 
Tournament; and Portland’s 
Sports Festival. 

September 16-18th is the 
date the Washington D.C. 
group will host its Capital 
Classic Tournament. 

The year’s tennis events 
wrap up with Dallas’ tourna¬ 
ment October 8-10th and 
Houston’s event November 
ll-13th. 

All clubs hosting national 
tournaments also have a vari¬ 
ety of local tennis activities. 


Those interested in more in¬ 
formation about the gay and 
lesbian tennis circuit or any 
of the above clubs should con¬ 


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I n the opening game of 
the 1994 basketball sea¬ 
son, held last Thursday 
(January 27), Corey Ran¬ 
dle, of the Gay Men’s basket¬ 
ball team, played an outstand¬ 
ing game as he grabbed 10 re¬ 
bounds, scored seven points 
and blocked three shots. 
Despite his efforts, the re¬ 
christened Hotshots lost to 
the Brewmasters 60 to 52. 

This year’s team is really 
using the Eureka Valley 
Adult Men’s Basketball 
league as a training ground 
for New York’s Gay Games 4 
in June. It appears that at 
least two teams will represent 
San Francisco in two differ¬ 
ent age brackets. However, 
the league team is suffering 
from a few problems, though 
the experience will be impor¬ 
tant for winning those medals 
in June. 

For one, the team lost last 
year’s sponsor, Castro Village 
Pharmacy, due to a buyout of 
the pharmacy by a larger cor¬ 
poration. So, the name used 
in the ‘80s, the Hotshots was 
adopted again. Also, the 
coach from last season is un¬ 
available and the players have 
been coaching themselves. 
But, in a reasonable reaction 
to the first game’s results, 
Eliot Kahn was unanimously 
elected to be coach (and re¬ 
mains eligible for court time). 
Finally, half of the team is 
new, including two-fifths of 
the starting line-up. 

All of these problems were 


evident in the tough loss last 
Thursday. Besides Corey, the 
best efforts were contributed 
by Jerome “Louie” Lewis at 
eight points, three rebounds; 
Alex Herrera at eight points, 
three rebounds and two 
blocked shots; and veteran 
Mark Johnson with six points, 
eight rebounds and two 
blocked shots. Newcomer Joe 
Jupin also got six boards. 

The halftime score was 26 
to 25, but the team missed its 
first 10 three-point-shots in 
the second half after only hit¬ 
ting one of six three pointers 
in the first half. The Brew- 
masters scored from all over 
the floor and took advantage 
of the Hotshots’ misses, yet 
the Brewmasters only led by 
five points with four minutes 
left to play. 

This year’s team captain, 
Louie Lewis, expressed his 
frustration over the outcome, 
but he recognized that there 
was no preparation for this 
season. Due to the holidays 
and changes in leadership, the 
players know it will take time 
for this new unit to become a 
true team. 

Thursday, February 3, the 
Hotshots will challenge the 
Run & Gun team at 6:30 p.m. 
at the 100 Collingwood gym. 
Their opponent is much 
taller, and the Hotshots will 
require an outstanding effort 
to compete against these 
guys. The gym is open, free 
of charge, and fans are en¬ 
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BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3. 1994 PAGE 42 
















Sports 


Sports 

Guide 

Basketball 

San Francisco Slammers 
women’s basketball team. 
Call Susan at 648-4931. 

Men’s Basketball — call 
Tony at 621-2710. 

Bicycling 

Different Spokes Bicycle 
Club promotes noncompeti¬ 
tive cycling for men and 
women on both road and 
mountain bikes. Rides each 
weekend, plus regular “De¬ 
cide and Ride” each Sunday 
at 10 a.m., McLaren Lodge, 
Golden Gate Park. For sched¬ 
ule or newsletter, please call 
(415) 282-1647 or write PO 
Box 14711, San Francisco, CA 
94114. 

Boating 

Barbary Coast Boating 
Club — gay boat owners and 
enthusiasts meet the 3rd 
Wednesday of every month, 7 
p.m., Berkeley Yacht Club, 
Berkeley Marina. West to the 
end of University Ave., #1 
Seawall Drive, (415) 905-6267. 

Bodybuilding 

Arcadia Bodybuilding So¬ 
ciety — call 978-9495 or write 
ABS, 1230 Market Street, SF, 
CA 94114. 

Bowling 

Women’s Business Bowl¬ 
ing League. Call Ann at 641- 
5795. 

Tavern Guild Bowling 
League. Call Mai Garcia at 
752-2366. 

Boxing 

Bay Area Boxing Club, a 
fully sanctioned USABF 
(United States Amateur Box¬ 
ing Federation) meets Thurs¬ 
days at 8 p.m. Open to all in¬ 
terested gay men and les¬ 


bians; all skill levels are wel¬ 
come. Call Greg at 585-2365. 

Football 

Women’s Flag Football: In¬ 
terested women call Maureen 
(415) 479-1131. 

San Francisco Trojans 
Football. Two games every 
Saturday, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., 
at Silver Terrace near Silver 
and Bayshore, SF. All skill 
levels welcome. Call Gary at 
344-8873. 

Hiking 

San Francisco Hiking Club 
- Call Clyde at 285-1260. 

Gay and Lesbian Sierrans, 
official activity section of the 
Sierra Club. Call the hotline: 
281-5666. 

South Bay GLS — call the 
Loma Prieta GLS hotline at 
408-236-2170. 


Racquet and Paddle 
Sports 

Gay & Lesbian Tennis 
Federation — John McEnhill, 
864-0187, extension 4. Infor¬ 
mal social doubles every Sat¬ 
urday and Sunday morning at 
the Flint and 16th Street ten¬ 
nis courts, weather permit¬ 
ting. 

Table Tennis Anyone? 
Practice Tuesdays, 7:00-9:30 
p.m., at Milberry Union, 
UCSF, 500 Parnassus, SF. 
Call Allen Balderson, 626- 
1787, or Lucie, 387-4476. 

Running 

San Francisco FrontRun- 
ners. Fun runs at Stow Lake 
Boat House in Golden Gate 
Park, every Saturday, 9 a.m. 
No-host brunch follows. Call 
John at 863-0954. 

San Francisco Track & 
Field, practice every Tues. 
and Thurs., 6 p.m., and Sun., 
10:00 a.m., at Kezar Stadium 
on Waller & Stanyan streets, 
SF. Call Rick 550-7966. 

Bay Area Distance Run¬ 
ners. Call Dave Studach at 
626-1380 or Lois Allen at 586- 
6013. 


Scuba Diving 
. Northern California Rain¬ 


bow Divers: Lesbian and Gay 
Scuba Club for the active div¬ 
er in Northern California. 
Meets second Tuesday of ev¬ 
ery month, 7:30 p.m. at the 
Sierra Club, 730 Polk Street, 
San Francisco. Call Greg 
Abrams for more info, (415) 
821-2877. 

Skiing 

Saga North, lesbian and 
gay ski club. Call for more in¬ 
formation (415) 995-2772. 

Soccer 

San Francisco Spikes 
Men’s Soccer. Practice Tues¬ 
days, 5:30-8 p.m., at Beach 
Chalet in Golden Gate Park. 
Call Carlo Togni at 821-4248. 

Women’s Soccer. Call 
Golden Gate Women’s Soccer 
League Chair Jan Mullen at 
753-0946. 

Softball 

S.F. Gay Softball League — 
Conducts a regular season of 
14 games for men and women 
in three divisions from March 
through June. Winter pick-up 
ball on Sundays: Two games 
are played, one at 10:30 a.m. 
and another at noon, at 
Christopher Field — located 
behind the west end of the 
Safeway parking lot off Dia¬ 
mond Heights Blvd. Players 
of all skill levels are welcome. 
Please call Fred at (415) 381- 
0187 or Wendy at (510)436- 
7959 for information. 

Swimming 

Tsunami Masters Swim 
Club — call Suzanne at 431- 
1933. 

Team San Francisco 

Gay Games-bound Team 
San Francisco hopes to take 
at least 1,000 athletes from 
the Bay Area to Gay Games 
IV in New York, June 18-25, 
1994. TSF supplies members 
with the latest information 
coming out of New York, 
travel & housing, registration 
packets for all sports, and a 
uniform for Opening and 
Closing Ceremonies, and 
funds to help you get there. 
Members recieve a quarterly 
newsletter and monthly calen¬ 
dars. To join TSF, call (415) 
824-8118. 



Volleyball 

Volleyball practice every 
Sunday, 8 p.m., at Eureka 
Valley, 100 Collingwood. Call 
Tony Travers at 255-1332. 

Club Volleyball practice 
for “B” league players and up 
every Saturday except first 
Saturday of each month, 9:30- 
11:30 a.m., at Eureka Valley, 
100 Collingwood. Team and 
individual advanced players 
practice Mondays, 7:05 p.m., 
at Glen Park Gymnasium. 
Call Mike Bulawit at 731-2056. 

Gay Volleyball. Every 
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 
at 18th St. & DeHaro. Every¬ 
one welcome. Jay: 864-0257. 

Wrestling 

San Francisco Wrestling 
Club practices Sundays, 3-5 
p.m. Call Jim Frazier (510) 
538-8490. 

Golden Gate Wrestling 
Club. Practice Tuesdays 
evenings 7-9, Friday evenings 
7-9, and Sundays 12:30-3 p.m. 
at Eureka Valley Rec Center, 
100 Collingwood. All skill lev¬ 
els, men and women wel¬ 
come. Call Gene at 821-2991, 
or Dave Wagner at 558-8412. 
Bay Area Wrestling Newsline 
at 227-5802. 

Note: Your sports group 
can be listed here: Send 
Sports Guide the name of 
your group, a brief descrip¬ 
tion, the date, times, and loca¬ 
tions of your practices, and a 
contact person for the group. 
B.A.R.’s Sports Guide, 395 
9th St. SF CA 94103. V 



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Oakland Ballet 

Mixed repertory program of 
classics, including Leonide 
Massine's Gaite Parisienne, Lou 
Christensen's Nothin' Doin' Bar, 
and Eugene Loring's The Tender 
Land, with music by Aaron 
Copeland. $8-39. Thru 2/5. 
8pm. Paramount Theatre, 2025 
Broadway, Oakland. (510) 762- 
BASS. 


Salon DadA/ a contraDICTION 

Multimedia audience partici¬ 
pation version of Artaud's Jet 
of Blood and Tzara's The Gas 
Heart. $10-12. Thru 2/20. 
Open Egg Theatre, 450 Geary. 
673-1172. 


Street: Signs you may 

remember the four 10X10' paintings of the LA 
cops who beat up Rodney King. Those were on 
Van Ness. Perhaps you recall the huge portrait of 
Keith Meinhold and the bold pro-gay political 
statement that accompanied it. That was shown 
on Market through Gay Pride. The creator of these 
paintings has finally been corraled into showing his 
work in an indoor space. See new portraits and 
paintings by Aaron Wade,whose squirmy warm 
strokes seem to keep moving even after they're 
finished. Opening reception Feb. 4, 6-8pm. The 
show continues through Feb. 26 at the new 
Bucheon Gallery (355 Hayes St., 2nd. Floor. 863- 
2891), which, by the way, is run by two faboo 
lesbians. There goes the neighborhood. 

BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 46 


jealousy and revenge. $10-15. 
8pm. Thru 3/6. Phoenix 
Theatre, 301 8th St. 621-4423. 

BlackMale 

Poet/performers Jamez Smith, 
Kain Olaniyan Adams, REginald 
Cox interrogate 90s notions of 
Blackness, 
maleness, 
homosex "Negro 
faggotry" & drag 
politics. 8pm. 
backroom at 173 
Clara. 227-0553. 

Burn This 

Kudzu Theatre's 

C roduction of 
anford Wilson's 
funny and sexy 
play about a torrid 
straight affair 
between a rest¬ 
aurateur and a 
dancer. Her gay 
roommate 
provides amusing 
commentary. $7- 
10. Thru 2/12. Brainwash 
Theatre, 1126 Folsom at 7th. 
995-4778. 

Chesty Baker 

Chet's chanteuse widow 


African American Shakespeare 
Company Showcase 

Showcase of great scenes from 
Bill's best. $7. 8pm. Also Sat. 
New Conservatory Theatre, 25 


Van Ness. 861-4914. 

Ballad of the Sad Cafe 

Edward Albee's stage 
adaptation of Carson McCullers' 
Southern gothic tale of passion, 


SATURDAY 5 


Amnesia 

Beth B.'s multimedia installation 
and retrospective video 
screening, with taped perfor¬ 
mances by Jack Smith, Lydia 
Lunch, Robbie McCauley, John 
Lurie. Thru 2/19. New Langton 
Arts, 1246 Folsom. 626-5416. 

Mardi Gras Beer Bust 

Benefit for Maitri AIDS Hospice. 
Food, prizes. Costumes 
encouraged! $6. 3-7pm. Lone 
Star Saloon, 1354 Harrison. 

Mardi Gras Jambalaya 

Party and show with host 
Trauma Flintstone, Miss X and 


FRIDAY 4 


croons. $7. 11pm. Fridays thru 
Feb. Eichelberger's, 2742 17th 
at Florida. 863-4177. 

Classified 

Fred Adler's high-energy one-, 
man show about the cut-throat 
modern world. $10. Thru 2/12. 

Climate 
Theatre, 252 
9th St. 626- 
9196. 

Diamano 
Coura West 
African Dance 
Company 

West African 
dancers, 
acrobats and 
music in an 
energetic folk 

P erformance. 

art of 

Hometowns, 
the 1994 Bay 
Area Dance 
Series. $10- 
12. 8pm. Also 
Sat. at 3 & 8pm. Laney College 
Theatre, 900 Fallon at 9tn, 
Oakland. (510) 464-3234. 


The Secretaries 

New York's Five Lesbian many dragutantes. 10pm. 
Brothers perform their insane Lily's, 4 Valencia at Market. 


Fences 

Egypt Theatre's production 
ot August Wilson's play 
about several generations 
of a black family in the 
'50s. $6-8. 8pm. Egypt 
Theatre, 5306 Foothill 
Blvd. at Fairfax, Oakland. 
(510) 436-4877. 

Giselle 

San Jose Cleveland Ballet's 
production of the classic 
dance, accompanied by the 
San Jose Symphony. $12- 
50. 7:30pm. Also 

matinees. Thru 2/6. San 
Jose Center for the 
Performing Arts. (408) 
288-2800. 

He Plays, 

She Sings... 

Jerome Kern! 

Andrew Moore and Diana 
Sheehan perform a musical 
story with songs by the 
composer of great cabaret 
songs. $15. 8pm. Sun. at 
2pm. Thru 3/13. New 
Conserv-atory Theatre, 25 
Van Ness Ave. 861-8972. 

Living Room Festival 

Eclectic mix of video shorts 
by Black artists, including j 
Marlon Riggs' Affirmations 
and Ayanna Udongo's 
Edges. 11pm. KQED Ch. 9. 


La Maison Suspendue 

Canadian playwright Michel 
Tremblay's lyrical play about 
three generations in one 
Quebecois family, with a few 
lueer folk in it. $14-16. 8pm. 
jun. at 2pm. Actors Theatre, 
533 Sutter. 296-9179. 


new comedy about Big Bone, 
Oregon, and a lumber mill run 
by high-heeled, high-haired 
secretaries who binge on 
Slimfast and kill lumberjacks. 
$10-20. 8pm. Sat. at 5pm. 
Sun. at 3pm. Thru 2/19. 
Theatre Rhinoceros, 2926 16th 
at Mission. 861-5079. 

The Sum of Us 

David Stevens' pleasant story 
of a Melbourne soccer-playing 
gay son and his coming out to 


Thank the Lord 

for the Dyketime 

Phrancis back with her special 
tribute to Neil Diamond, "Hot August 
Phranc/' Dig her sideburns as she 
croons the tunes of the living legend. 
In Interview magazine, Diamond 
said he heard about our fave folk 
surfer dyke's act and wanted to see 
it, so why don't you? Opening for 
Neil will be Phranc as Phranc. $13. 
Feb. 5 & 6 at 8pm. Great American 
Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell St. 885- 
0750. 


Laura Nyro 

A solo concert by the acclaimed 
vocalist and para-lesbian. 
Melanie DeMore opens. $14- 
18. 8pm. First Congregational 
Church, 27th & Harrison, 
Oakland. (510) 835-1445. 

Robert Duncan in Word and Image 
Readings of the poet by Thom 
Gunn, Aaron Snurin, Margy 
Sloan, Norma Cole and others, 
who will also read their own 
work as well. Free. 3pm. 
Danforth Lecture Hall, 
Aron Art Center, Mills 
College, 5000 MacArthur 
Blvd., Oakland. (510) 430- 
2164. 

Seven Lively Sins 

Julie Queen, multi-toned 
vocalist, sings lusty, lonely 
songs of Kurt Weill. $6. 
Saturdays thru Feb. 
Eichelberger's, 2747 17th 
at Florida. 863-4177. 


Straight For the Money 

Celebration of queer 
experience in the sex 
industry: Strippers, phone 
sex workers, porn stars, 
strippers and the like. 
Sponsored by Sex Workers 
Action Coalition (SWAC). 
9pm. Komotion, 2779 
16th St. 


What To Call Home 

An evening with Nina Wise 
& Friends, a performance 
about the Jewish 
experience seen through 
modern eyes. Thru 2/27. 
Magic Theatre, Fort Mason 
Center. 441-8822. 


SUNDAY 6 


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The Man With Straight Hair 

World premiere of George 
Birimisa's new play about two 
ex-lover roommates in the 
Bowery of the '50s. $12. 

7:30pm. Sun. at 2pm. Thru 
2/13. Theatre Rhinoceros, 2926 
16th at Mission. 861-5079. 


No Man's Land 

Aurora Theatre Company's 
production of Harold Pinter's 
sinister verbal joust between 
two aging poets and their 
servants. $12-18. 8pm. Thru 
2/20. Berkeley city Club, 2315 
durant Ave., Berkeley. (510) 
843-4822. 


his blue-collar dad. $8-24. 
8pm. Sun. at 2 & 7pm. Thru 
2/13. Marin Theatre Company, 
397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 
388-5200. 

Those Damn Calla Lilies 

Artfull Circle Theatre has 
concocted another play version 
snatched from a film classic, 
this time Stage Door. Connie 
Champagne stars. $20. 8pm. 
Thru 2/27. 626-5455. 

20:10 Legacies of Collaboration 

Repertory performances to 
celebrate the decades of work 
by Margaret Jenkins Dance 
Company, Paul Dresher 
Ensemble and Kronos Quartet. 
$16-45. Thru 2/19. Theatre 
Artaud, 450 Florida. 621-7797. 

Veronica Klaus 

Soulful live music. This show 
will be recorded for Veronika's 
next CD. Also, Bambi and Lu 
Read. $5. 10pm. Komotion, 
2779 16th St. 861-6423. 


Angels in the Castro 

Paintings of winged beauties by 
T.R. Colletta can be seen in 
shops throughout the Castro 
area, including A Different 
Light, 489 Castro. 

Bv Hand and Nature 

Chip Gibbons' documentary 
about being asymptomatic and 
HIV positive for 14 years. 
Sundays thru Feb. 10:30pm. 
Viacom Ch. 47. 

Kenny Fries 

Author of The Healing 
Notebooks reads from his 
work. 7:30pm. A different 
Light, 489 Castro. 431-0891. 

Scott Siedman 

"Love Over Death," an exhibit of 
erotic and religious artworks 
that resemble ancient murals. 
Morphos Gallery, 544 Hayes. 
626-1936. 

Star Search Karaoke 

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Club has ongoing singing 
contests with cash, prizes and a 
little safe sex info in between. 
8pm. N'Touch Club, 1548 Polk 
St. To register, call 227-0946. 

Uncle Vanya 

New translation of Anton 
Chekov's deceptively simple 
and comic play about the lives 
of the residents at a remote 
country estate. $12-38. 8pm & 
2pm. Thru 3/6. Marines 
Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter at 
Mason. 749-2ACT. 


MONDAY 7 



I Was a Teenage Serial Killer 

It's cult movie night! $3. 
8:30pm. The Elbo Room, 
Valencia near 17th. 552-7788. 


Gay Comedy Open Mike 

Aspiring comics can call to sign 
up by 7pm. $5. 8pm. Josie^s, 
16th & Market. 861-7933. 


TUESDAY 8 


Beauty and the Beast 

We know this ice skating 
production of the hit Disney 
flick is a patriarchal embodi¬ 
ment of sexism, looksism, or 
whatever, and that it cost six 



million dollars worth of dancing 
spoons and Walt Disney was a 
homophobe. Nevertheless, it's 
fun for kids of queer parents, 
who may also enjoy the cute 
skaters. Oakland Coliseum thru 
2/14. Cow Palace 2/16-21. San 
Jose Arena 2/23-27. (510) 
760-BASS. 

Gay & Lesbian Folk Dancing 

Lessons at 7:30-8pm, dancing 
full tilt 8:00-9:30pm. Each 
week at Eureka Valley 
Community Center. 585-9784. 

Jonathan Parker 

Exhibit of portraits by the self- 
taught Oakland painter. Thru 
2/26. Intersection for the Arts 
Gallery, 446 Valencia. 626- 
2787. 

Minnie Pearl Necklace 

Fried chicken Tuesdays at 
eichelbergers with country 
camp band. $5. 2742 17th. 
863-4177. 


WEDNESDAY 9 


Addressing Herself 

Group exhibition of works by 
women about female sexuality, 
fetishism, self-representation 
and transformation. Thru 3/5. 
The Lab, 1807 Divisadero. 346- 
4063. . 

Between 

Thumb and Forefinger 

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gender images and age 
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Female Trouble 

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Daniel Mangin shows rare and 
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This week: Tea & Sympathy. 
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Coming Home Hospice Bingo 

Play and raise funds for the 
hospice. $12 buy-ins. 7pm. 100 
Diamond St. 552-7454. 

Hugh Shurley 

Exhibit of mixed media collages, 
modern in construction, but 
classic in style. Thru 2/12. 
John Pence Gallery, 750 Post 
St. 441-1138. 

New World (Dis)Order 

Exhibit of works by 13 
California women artists 
exploring the changing nature of 
identity. Thru 4/4. Center for 
the Arts Gallery, 701 mission at 
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A Taste of Somewhere Else 

Medea Project's theatre work 
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Photography by Native 
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Photo exhibit of work by the 
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drag queens and gritty 
inhabitants. Vision Gallery, 
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SF's New Goddess of Leather: 


Diana Hardick 



Diana Hardick is the 8th Ms. Leather of San Francisco. An 
Aries, biker member of Hell's Belles and named for the God¬ 
dess of the Hunt, she won the title last Saturday night, Jan. 
29 at Pleasuredome. (Photo: Mr. Marcus) 


I t’s ironic that the new 
Ms. Leather of San 
Francisco was named 
after a mythical god¬ 
dess. It’s doubtful that any 
other female leather-title hold¬ 
er has a magnificent statue 
erected in honor of her name¬ 
sake in Mexico City, a tribute 
to Diana, Goddess of the 
Hunt. 

In her fantasy before a 
huge turnout (actually more 
men than women!) last Satur¬ 
day at Pleasuredome, the 36- 
year-old leather Hardick (yes, 
that’s really her name), fan¬ 
tasized that she was a 
huntress encountering a wild 
cat (Tina Carroll), who even¬ 
tually captured our heroine 
and caged her, shredded and 
bloodied, before a wildly 
cheering audience. 

Diana Hardick was the 
only contestant who faced the 
judges, but that didn’t mean 
she was guaranteed to win 
the coveted title. She appar¬ 
ently pleased the judges in 
the interview. Her demeanor 
onstage was forceful, but not 
pushy. Her speech was gen¬ 
uine and her apparent 11 years 
of experience hardly makes 
her a newcomer to leather- 
dom. She was well received 
by the audience and garnered 
a standing ovation when 
Queen Cougar sashed her as 
the new Ms. San Francisco 
Leather. Her shiny boots 
couldn’t match the sparkle in 
her eyes. 

A native of Montana and a 
single triple Aries, our newest 
title-holder spent a lot of time 
in New Hampshire. She’s a 
biker (Harley Davidson!) and 
her club, Hells Belles, spon¬ 
sored her for this competi¬ 
tion. She’s employed as a pro¬ 
duction facilities manager and 


has no problem expressing 
enthusiasm. She has a delight¬ 
ful personality! The communi¬ 
ty looks forward to Diana’s 
year with the title. 

The whole production last 
Saturday night was flawless. 
With Queen Cougar’s wild-in- 


the-jungle fantasy opening 
number and Jo Leroux as the 
great white hunter, this was 
camp as only La Cougar can 
dish it out. Queen’s farewell 
speech was upbeat. A nostal¬ 
gic look at her appearances 
(Continued on next page) 



The moment of truth for Diana Hardick as outgoing Ms. SF Leather Queen Cougar "sashes” 
her successor to a standing ovation by the big crowd last Saturday night, Jan. 29. Thanks, Queen 
Cougar, for a great year. (Photo: Mr. Marcus) 


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Mr. Marcus 



Lee Tucker won the Feb. 1995 spot on the Eagle's Bare Chest 
Calendar last Thursday, Jan. 20. He is also on the 1994 calen¬ 
dar. They'll be selecting Mr. March on Thursday, Feb. 3. 

(Photo: Mr. Marcus) 


(Continued from previous page) 
around the country and her 
continuing commitment to 
her brothers and sisters, 
added to the evening’s plea¬ 
sures. A drag number by “En- 
route,” the singing group, and 
Lenny Broberg and Skeeter 
Wildman emceeing added to 
the fun. A great evening! I’m 
sorry you weren’t there. Di¬ 


ana Hardick will represent 
our city in the International 
Ms. Leather competition in 
March. And to Audrey Joseph 
and Jamie Santos (happy 
birthday, darrrrling!), and 
their crew, congratulations on 
another sterling production! 
★ ★ ★ 

Next up is Mr. San Fran¬ 


cisco Leather on Saturday 
night, April 16. From where 
I’m standing it looks like we’ll 
have at least a half-dozen or 
more contestants. If any of 
you are aspiring to the title — 
and the commitment(s) that 
go with it — there are prelim¬ 
inary competitions. First out, 
Mr. Watering Hole Leather 
takes place on Friday, Febru¬ 
ary 12th. The winner gets 
$300 and a chance to repre¬ 
sent that bar in the biggie in 
April. Richard Faust, who did 
a hell of a job with the title, 
will step aside that night. 

On Wednesday, March 2, 
Mr. SF Leather, Greg Byfield, 
will pass on his Mr. Jackham¬ 
mer Leather title in a compe¬ 
tition at that bar. Only six 
days later, Tuesday, March 8, 
Mr. Headquarters Leather 
will be picked to succeed Jeff 
Matthews. 

Tony Amato will pass his 
sash to the new Mr. Edge 
Leather on Friday, March 18 
and the last one I have on the 
list is the Mr. San Francisco 
Eagle Leather on Thursday, 
March 24. Andy Rose will 
step aside for his successor 
that night. No word on 
whether Mr. Pit Leather at 
Cocktails will run a contest 
this year or the Lone Star Sa¬ 
loon. Prizes for the winners 
in all of the above will be an¬ 
nounced as soon as I get the 
press releases. Now’s the time 
to start thinking about enter¬ 
ing! Applications for the com¬ 
petitions at all of the above 
bars should be available even 
as you read this. 



Diana Hardick gives her 
speech before the audience 
and judges at the Ms. SF 
Leather Contest last Satur¬ 
day night, Jan. 29. 

(Photo: Mr. Marcus) 


The Dishcovery Channel 

Nothing but raves about 
the grand opening party of 
The Lure in New York City 

last Saturday night, January 
29th. Wally Wallace (of Mine- 
shaft fame) has scored big 
with this one, so next time 
you’re in the Big Apple, drop 
in. Remember, there is a 
mandatory dress code at The 
Lure (Leather, Uniforms, 
Rubber, Etc.) on weekends 
and cologne is always forbid¬ 
den! 

And speaking of bars, a 
new owner has taken over 
what used to be Griffs Bar 
(4216 Melrose at Vermont) in 
Los Angeles. Since they as¬ 
sumed control of the bar the 
day before the big earth¬ 
quake, it’s only appropriate 
that they decided to call it 
The Faultline. At present, it’s 
undergoing extensive renova¬ 
tion, but I’ll let you know 
when the Faultline will be 
open for leathery business! 

(Continued on next page) 



Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather, Richard Benoit, during the jock strap 
competition at Tracks in Washington, D.C. the weekend of Jan. 
14-17. (Photo: Mr. Marcus) 



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Affairs to Remember 


Thursday, Feb. 3: Looking 
for Mr. March on the 1994 Bare 
Chest Calendar at the Eagle 
tonight at 2200. Win $100 and 
help out the AIDS Emergency 
Fund. 

Friday, Feb. 4: Grant 
Dupont celebrates his ??th birth¬ 
day tonight with a big party at 
the SF-Eagle beginning at 2000. 
With an $8 beer/soda bust, 50/50 
raffle, surprises, and show — all 
to benefit the AIDS Emergency 
Fund. See you there? 

Saturday, Feb. 5: The Cal 
Eagles MC celebrates its 10th an¬ 
niversary on the SF-Eagle patio 
this evening from 1800-2100. By 
invitation or club overlay. Meet 
their new officers and partake of 
this landmark occasion. Congrat¬ 
ulations, Eagles, and best wishes 
for continued success. 

Vern Stewart and Bill Gooch 
step aside as the King and Prince 
of Leather at the Krewe de Cuir 
Mardi Gras coronation tonight at 
the Swedish American Club. 
Twelve leather “chevaliers” will 
bite into the Mardi Gras cake to 
see who will reign during the 
next year, beginning at 2000. You 
must wear a mask! 

Benefit beer/soda bust at the 
Lone Star Saloon from 1500-1900 
for the Maitri Hospice. Costumes 
encouraged for the $6 beer/soda 
bust, raffle, food and surprises. Jo 
Carol will perform, so it should 


be hot! With Mark Wood as the 
new manager, look for some in¬ 
novative fun at the Lone Star. 

Sunday, Feb. 6: The Stop 
AIDS Project and Lenny 
Broberg’s softball team host the 
Eagle’s beer/soda bust today 
from 1500-1800, for $8, with food. 
The door prizes are the 365 
Dicks Calendars. No show, no 
speeches — only raffle prizes, 
beer, food and cruising! 

If you’re in Seattle, the only 
place to be is the Mr. Seattle 
Leather Contest at Neighbor’s 
Bar this evening around 1900. 
The winner will compete at Inti. 
Mr. Leather in Chicago next 
May. 

Wednesday, Feb. 9: The 
1995 Great Buns calendar con¬ 
tests begin tonight, and they’re 
looking for Mr. January begin¬ 
ning at 2130 hours. Win cash, 
fame, fortune and more. Applica¬ 
tions available now. 

Week Feb. 11-20: In Mel¬ 
bourne, Australia? Melbourne’s 
Leather Pride Week continues 
for nine days. Check out the 
Laird for all the fun things going 
on, and say hi to the Jackaroos 
and the Melbourne Leather Men! 

Saturday, Feb. 12: The 
Sacramento Leather Association 
presents its Mr. Sacramento Val¬ 
ley Leather contest as John Yant 
passes on the sash tonight. It’s at 
The Sierra Inn; tickets are $12 


advance/$15 door. Call (916) 863- 
3398 for more details. 

King and Queen of the Hop 
will be selected at the Pilsner Inn 
at its 12th annual sock hop, with 
dancing and hula hoop contests 
in the ’50s style. Beginning at 
2000 and hosted by Tom “Sue 
Ellen” Begano. Always a fun 
time, this event was started by 
former Mr. SF Leather, the late 
Jim Cvitanich. 

Mr. Watering Hole Leather 
contest at the Watering Hole at 
2100. Winner gets $300 cash and 
maybe a sash. Represent the 
Hole at the Mr. San Francisco 
Leather contest in April. 

Dyke Daddy Jo Leroux pre¬ 
sents a St. Valentine’s Day Mas¬ 
sacre dance in The Pit at Cock¬ 
tails tonight beginning at 2000. 
Only $5 at the door and a 50/50 
raffle to benefit Lyon-Martin 
Women’s HIV unit. 

Sunday, Feb. 13: Forum of 
San Francisco hosts the 
beer/soda bust at the SF-Eagle, 
1500-1800, $8, food, cruising ga¬ 
lore. Don’t miss it! 

A day of music and laughter 
for Brownie Mary at The Bear 
from 1300-2100, with a beer/soda 
bust from 1600-2100 for $6. Dona¬ 
tions of flour, sugar, cocoa or oth¬ 
er baking goods. Also, lots of en¬ 
tertainment! ▼ 


(Continued from previous page) 

If you’re planning ahead, 
NLA:San Diego is gearing up 
for their big Leatherfest VI 
weekend (March 11-13). This 
chapter is one of the most 
progressive entities of the 
NLA and one of the most re¬ 
spected. A whole series of 
workshops and lectures will 
take place alone with an 
awards banquet, day bike 
run, and other fun activities. 
The host hotel is the Raddi- 
son Mission Valley and you 
can call NLA San Diego (800) 
598-1859 for details, prices 
and other information. More 
on this one later. 

Mr. San Diego Leather, 
Ed Morgan passes on his 
sash the weekend of Febru¬ 
ary 25-27. Meet and greet con¬ 
testants and judges on Friday, 
and go to the contest on Sat¬ 
urday at 2200. Call (619) 294- 
9337 for details. Lenny 
Broberg will emcee. It 
promises to be a fun week¬ 
end. ▼ 


The suspension demo was one of the highlights of the show at Mid-Atlantic Mr. Leather by Len 
Griffith and his crew. It brought down the house. (Photo: Mr. Marcus) 


Mr. Spike New York, Andy Borden, 2nd runner-up in the Mr. 
Mid-Atlantic Leather contest, was a crowd favorite in the jock 
competition. (Photo: Mr. Marcus) 

























Books 


Truth 

(Continued from page 39) 

strating, for example, the cu¬ 
rious and corrupt way the use 
of drugs has been criminal¬ 
ized over the last 70 years. 
These histories are at once 
the vice and virtue of his 
book. They fatten it beyond 
forgiveness, it’s true, but they 
also make fascinating reading, 
and more than justify the ex¬ 
pense (if not the heft) of the 
book. 

If the arguments against 
consensual crime are as ab¬ 
surd as McWilliams shows 
they are, then how did we 
land ourselves in such a 
mess? The answer is apparent 
to any queer who’s ever had 
to argue for her or his natural 


rights: “Almost all consensual 
crimes find the basis of their 
restrictions and prohibitions 
in religion.” This disturbing 
fact prompts McWilliams to 
include an additional 200 
pages on “Consensual Crimes 
and the Bible.” With the assis¬ 
tance of some marvelous com¬ 
puter software (Biblesoft, 
QuickVerse, Bible Library), 
McWilliams illuminates why 
the Bible is “the book quoted 
most often to relieve us of our 
personal freedoms.” For those 
of us who have endured the 
Bible-mania of the Christian 
right (and who hasn’t?), this 
deconstructive book-within- 
the book is worth the bulk of 
the whole. 

Facts on file 

As a bonus, McWilliams 


supplies a handy state-by-state 
chart of which consensual 
crimes are illegal where. Fun 
facts: in New Mexico the age 
of consent is 13; Vermont has 
the least laws against consen¬ 
sual crimes; Virginia and Ida¬ 
ho have the most. Prostitu¬ 
tion is the only consensual 
crime illegal everywhere. 

Finally, in a fit of desktop 
publishing precocity, 
McWilliams has garnished 
each page of the book with its 
own boxed bon mot, citing 
everyone from Jerry Falwell 
to Divine. The sentiment of 
his own book is best ex¬ 
pressed in the words of a cer¬ 
tain Laurence J. Peter: “I 
hate people who are intoler¬ 
ant.” Exactly. ▼ 


Pornucopia 


Clothes Make the Man 


by Tom Bacchus 


O ur latest batch of 
debauchery in¬ 
cludes two gems 
worthy of onanistic 
interest. Lords of Leather is 
a deftly made, amusing treat. 
Rob Cryston ogles guest Jon 
Vincent, who’s dropped by to 
visit Cryston’s busty female 
roommate. Cryston soon hops 
into fantasy land, sporting 
choke collar and studded har¬ 
ness, as does Vincent, the 
growling, scenery-chewing 
balls-erina of this scene. 

Oddly, the duo does it in a 
fruity Laura Ashley four- 
poster bed, an ironic femme 
twist. Vincent sure can spew 
dirty talk, but his jizz shots 
rarely measure up to his ver¬ 
bal cantos. Fortunately, slut- 
pig Cryston delivers as usual, 
being the best little bottom in 
the world. Oh, that snarl. It 
ought to be bottled! 

Other scenes take place in 
a leather bar we’d like to vis¬ 
it, where blowjobs by the 
pool table and a four-way on 
the go-go stage are part of an 



Rassle 


Book Brief 


Affirmation, Not Despair 

Pat Califia’s Sensuous Magic is a friendly, non-threatening, 
helpful guide and resource for “adventurous couples” who are 
interested in expanding the erotic boundaries of their sexual re¬ 
lationship. The book provides a good grounding for the couple 
new to those activities included under the general term of S/M, 
which can include role-playing (dominant/submissive), costume 
fetish, restraint, erotic (pleasurable) pain, all of which may or 
may not include genital activity. 

This is a practical, sensitive introduction to the basics, the lan¬ 
guage of erotic play and essential materials. Importantly, Califia 
emphasizes the primacy of good communication and negotiation 
between participants, as these elements foster the trust and safe¬ 
ty needed to achieve mutual consent. Califia emphasizes that 
consensual erotic activity is “not about rape, abuse or degrada¬ 
tion.” The purpose of doing this is, she writes, “to give you re¬ 
lease, not resentment; affirmation, not despair.” 

Sensuous Magic is punctuated with fictional examples that 
provide inspiration for possible scenes, some new ways to ap¬ 
proach “vanilla” sex, and exercises to prompt discussion of vari¬ 
ations of play potential. Califia’s checklist helps determine both 
attractions and aversions regarding specific activities. The abil¬ 
ity to have fun is important, and Califia’s signature wit under¬ 
scores the fact that the very notion of “play” is integral to S/M 
activity. Her use of the term “sensual magic” (the phrase “sen¬ 
suous magic” was coined by the late Cynthia Slater, founder of 
the Society of Janus) is two-fold: it “acknowledges the ritualistic 
nature” of many fantasies and “the ecstatic or transcendental 
states that some people enter as a result of S/M play.” Califia 
also intends to “counter some of the ugly edge of the popular 
press which uses terms like ‘sadist’ and ‘masochist’ to describe 
only crazy, sad and violent people.” She captures the power of 
what it means to enter forbidden terrain, and to do so safely 
with someone else, and to explore the healing potential, spiritual 
aspects and the depth of S/M. ▼ 

—Noreen C. Barnes 


evening’s entertainment. 
Kinky variations include a 
black man giving then getting 
head and a boot polish by a 
muscle-bound blond who lat¬ 
er impales himself on a huge 
dildo in the toilet. 

The tape’s best scene is 
when Cryston, wandering 
through this dreamlike tav¬ 
ern, finds a sexy pissoir and 
attaches his ass to now 
pumped-up Jared Clark, who 
fucks him while another 
studlet tickles his tonsils. 
Cryston’s finale, which shows 
him coming then jacking off 
his oral partner while getting 
fucked, is worth watching 
again and again. Ooh, that 
snarl! 

Lords of Leather 

Stallion Video 

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Anyone who’s ever won¬ 
dered what it’s like to wrestle 
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persists, and Rassle is no ex¬ 
ception. 

Teamboys Rob Cryston 
and Randy Storm get butt in¬ 
spections by growling hulk 
coach Jon Vincent. He fingers 
their holes on his desk, then 
plows them both. The ensu¬ 
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E05 

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SENSUOUS TOUCH 

Eric 564-6277 

$35 IN/$45 OUT 


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FRIENDLY SPACE 

Experience A Great Massage By 
A Masculine Caring Man 

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- Swedish/Esalen 

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- $.45/1 % Hrs. 

Patrick 255-3086 


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looks of a lumberjack! 

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Late O.K.! 



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431-9608 
9 a.m. - 9 P.m. 


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252-7100 


Discount PWAs • Castro Location 


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Clinton 776-3805 


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Chris & David 
285-9710 


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ASIAN DREAM 

EOS 


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Christopher, 389-6709 eo7 


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a passionate touch for 
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br/br/5’ 97150#/8"uncut 
Only $50 in ▼ $60 out 

Phillip (415) 487-1133' 



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A Warm and Clean Environment Awaits You. 
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Tissue Massage, Nurturing and Sensual. 
75 min. $40 Eves + Wkend Until 10 PM. near 
Van Ness + Broadway. 

^err^MT567^539^ 

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Healing, Satisfying 

STRONG HANDS 
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From Stress Reduction to 
Simple Relaxation 

STEVE C.M.T. 
821-2985 







Wonderful, Relaxing Massag 


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ON A TABLE IN/OUT 
$40 (510) 234-4880 


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Sliding Scale Fee 

Johnny 567-2952 

(Pacific Hts.) 


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Had a cut blond masseur 
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In The Tub? 

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Ultrasensual, Relaxing, Pro¬ 
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$25 SF'S BEST 

Quality + + Vic CMT 552-5364 

E05 

DISCOUNT MSG 

C.M.T.$20-30Call:775-4771 24hrs. 

E05 


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Johnny567-2952*24hrs 
• 1 1/2 hrs-$45/$60* 

SONOMA 

COUNTY 

Sensual Massage & Hot Tub 
Retreat Setting 
Harry (707) 824-8040 eob 


Professional masseur (certified ’85) gives 
Swedish-Esalen massage with a firm and 
gentle touch. ‘I love to massage and I 
have the touch.* $301 1/4hr. t $361 1/2 
hr,, $48 2 hrs. In Castro, easy parking. 


HENRY ROMERO 

Certified Massage Therapist 
Member — AMTA 
Soothe away stress and tension 
with a 90 minute massage in a 
warm, comfortable environment 
Gift Certificates Available 
Call 553-4122 


San Jose — Swedish Massage 
$ 30/hr. $45/1 Vi Hr. In-calls 
Anthony (408) 288-6169-CMT 


STUDENTS! 

Special Discount C.M.T. $20- 
30. Call: 775-4771 24-hoursE05 


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and Professional. 

For an experience that will 
relieve your stress and tension 
and provide you with a sound 
mind and body. 

John S. Haas, Swedish Esalen 

mm rxi Accu pressure 

$45.00 1 Hr. 

(415) 355-1520 » r,5lwl 


San Mateo 




Excellent full body 
massage by exp'd CMT. 
Deep and sensual. $40. 


JOE (415) 342-5035 


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Professional Full-Body 
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Call Larry (510) 283-6217 


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being. 

"You deserve to be treated this special." 

Stephen F. Pullis, L.M.T. 
(415) 864-2430 

9 Years Exp. • Castro Location » Noon - 11pm Daily • Out Calls » Gift Certificates 


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Excellent Massage 
(Esalen/Deep Tissue/Reiki) 
By a Strong, Sensitive, Highly 
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Jason Serinus (510) 444-4169 


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Nude A A _ jut 

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Nurturing + 

Tom 922-8992 


FOR THE FIT MAN 

Who Demands the Best 
RON 563-2392 


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ECSTATIC MASSAGE 
MASCULINE, HAIRY 
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Swedish, Deep Tissue 
Certified Fit, Gdlkg Man 
$45 Jim (510) 644-1625 eos 


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Massage 
15 St. & Dolores 
$40/1 % Hrs., $30/1 Hr. 
Sliding Scale 
Non Sexual 

864-1320 


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Body Massage 

By Caring & 
Sensitive C.M.T. 

Deep-Gentle 
- $ 40/in - 

Jeff 
566-4746 


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Call Doug 239-0679 $50 eob 


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SELF-LOVE 

SWEDISH MASSAGE 

By Strong, Creative and 
Experienced Masseur 

Walter, C.M.T. 285-5704 


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MASSAGE 


StUdTSU 


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in your life 
thmugh touch 


• maintain optimum health 

• reduce stress 

• relaxation 
guaranteed 

• nonsexual m 

• 11/2 hours $50 %% § 

Andrew 861-1756 


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touch 

Jim 

864-2653 


ORTHOPEDIC MASSAGE 

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training. Please call for 
detailed info. Thank you. 


S. ROSA RUSSIAN RIVER 

Hot Oil Massage 
By Bottom 

$40.00 In $60.00 Out 
1-707-528-7454 eob 


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$40 10 Yrs. Exp./CMT, Table. 
The Best! Robbie 543-3058 eos 


MASTERARTIST 

Smooth Built, Clean-Cut 
Down-to-Earth Great Massage! 
NUDE IN OR OUT 
$45/hr $55/r/ 2 hrs.587-1311 

E06 


Electrifying Massage By 
bearded masseur, only $40. 
Hermann 648-0604 e°5 


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Sensual Touch 
Nude Massage 
By Muscular Dude 
PH: ANTHONY 861-6027 


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NEW IN SF 

23 y.o., Super Handsome, 
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lbs., of Rock Hard Muscle! 
Certified in Switzerland. 

Treat yourself to 
International Pampering! 
You Deserve The Best! 
$40/60 Paco 487-9575 


RELAX 

Treat yourself to a strong yet 
soothing massage by a caring & 
sensitive professional in a warm & 
cozy environment. 

ERIK GEORGE, cmt 

Gift Certificates Available. 

$55 / VA HR. 

552-1183 IQ AM - 1QPM 


Swedish 75 mins. $50 • Tantric 100 mins. $75 


SPECIAL TOUCH I 

Sensual Nude Massage w 
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Experience The Difference £ 

KIRK 281-5901" 


Nice & Relaxed 

A full-body Swedish massage 
will bring you bliss. 
Warm table, warm oil. 

Bob 824-6713 

certified, experienced 


Quality 

Bodywork 

Friendly, 
Professional 
Nurturing, 
Strong and 
Healing 

Castro in or out 

Alan Moore 

708-6052 

Enjoy Yourself More! 


DOES YOUR JOB HAVE 
YOU TIED UP IN KNOTS? 
LET AN EXPERT UNTIE THEM. 

ADAM 292-3222 

Swedish/Shiatsu Masseur/Model 


MELT WITH A MASSAGE 

Sensual Complete FullBody Massage 
combining Swedish/Esalen & Acupressure 
techniques for total tension relief. 
AFTERNOONS & EVENINGS 

6 • 4 ’ ASIAN 175# 
CHUCK 221-3477 certified 


INDULGE YOURSELF 

Enjoy the nurturing magic of a soothing deep 
tissue Swedish-Esalen massage in a warm and 
comfortable environment. Castro location. Gift 
Certificates available. Sliding scale for people 
living with HIV. 

MARK CARM0DY 

(415) 861-5441_Certified 


Generous touch to soothe the body, 
mind and spirit. 

415 . 387.9410 

SLIDING SCALE FOR PWAS 


Warm hands, 

WARM H EART 

“A masseur in the finest tradition 
of ecstatic bodywork.” 

-Joseph Kramer, Director, Body Electric School 
Swedish/Esalen, Acupressure, Rebirthing. 
HIV+ encouraged. Castro location. 

By appt. $45 for 90 minutes $60 for 2 healing hours 

BILL WEINTRAUB, CMT 861-7689 


Nurturing Escape 

PROFESSIONAL SWEDISH MASSAGE 
STRONG & INTUITIVE HANDS 
HEALINC & RELAXING 

TERRY 824.6455 


Young Guy Gives Friendly 
Massage in Oakland. Call: 

Jay (510) 839-9760 eos 


Relax, Release, Sensual 
Stan CMT 641-8221 
Complete Body-Swedish 
$25 172-2 hrs. Noe Valley eo7 


RELAX 

But Get Aroused 

Sensual, Erotic 
Nude Massage 
by 24 y/o Handsome 
Muscular Caring Guy 

Tomas - 665-7676 


TOUCH 

HEALS 


Certified Massage 
$20/30 min., $30/1 Hour, 
$45/1 Vi Hrs. 

(415) 386-0152 
John 


IT’S HARD 


To find a great masseur 

Look no further, you’ve found one 
in me. I’m an ext. handsome, 

5 TO", 200 lb. bodybuilder who will 
give you a superior full-body 
massage. Call Robert when you 
want a professonal bodyworker. 


567-6015, CMT 


Attractive, Smooth 

CHINESE MAN 

China-Trained Masseur 
Full-Body. Lin 664-3311 E 06 


Nude Buffed Masseur 
Daniel 621-2354 In/Out em 


LATIN 

SENSUAL EROTIC MASSAGE 
$35 (510) 654-4504 
*0utcalls to S.F. Also 


TOM 

ADVENTURESOME 

Built tight, muscular 
Blond man, 32,6', 1901bs., Very 
friendly. Guys over 30 preferred. 
Sensual massage in the buff. 
$45in/$60out 24 hrs. 

563-1302 


MATTHEW SIMMONS 

Body Electric School Instructor. Certifiied 
massage therapist. 4 years experience. 


V 'Pe&fete attd 'PenAMtaCb 


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MASSAGE 



▼ 









A TOUCH OF CLASS 

A RELAXING MASSAGE 

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$45/ln/$60 Out 75 mins. 

Mike 931-0149 24 hrs. 


DeeaSSSct 


You Deserve It! 


Derek, CMT 487-9169 


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T Full Body Hassaqe ' 


The Perfect Balance 


of Erotic and Therapeutic Massage 

Powerful Yet Painless Deep Tissue Work 
Swedish and Acupressure 
$35/60min Castro District $45/90min 


Markus 864-4209 cmt 


HOT 


Honest great looks 
648-1919 


STRESSBUSTER 

MASSAGE 

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• Release 

\ Emotions 

Anwar Hussain B.A. CMT 
552-6677 / 954-3629 


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Pamper yourself and Call 

474-8027 


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Voice Mail: 980-5147 


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by 

PRO TRAINER/ 
BODYBUILDER 
John 989-5317 


SUPERB MASSAGE 

JEFF GIBSON, 
JP 626-7095 

Whether your goal is stress manage¬ 
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pains, or simply to feel great, I can 
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massage • THgger Point • Cross Fiber 
• PNF Stretching • and more! 


The 

BODYMECHANIC 

THERAPEUTIC 

MASSAGE 

AND 

FITNESS TRAINING 

Keep your body in tune! 

Dan 567-9698 

CPFT, CMT 


RELAX WITH ME 

Professional Full Body Massage 
Swedish/Deep Tissue 

Wotolc * ,n - $50 00 

Hotels Out - $60.00 

CALL J.J. 
415-771-4873 
Pager 837-7836 


SWEDISH 

MASSAGE 

BY 

GREAT BODY 
346-6334 


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under the nurturing hands of 


JAS DEWSNAP 

Certified Massage Therapist and 
registered Jin Shin Do®Acupressurist 

864-5447 

Castro location 

$40 -1 1/2 hours - discount PWA's 


Nurturing/Caring 

Massage 

558-9906 


EROTIC MASSAGE 

Vh Hrs-$40/ln $ 65/out 
Older Men Welcome. Hotels. 
24 Hrs. (415) 346-4677 eo 5 


BEAR FACTS 

Hairy Italian, Ex-Football 
jock rubs you the right 
way. Butch 621-4316. 24 Hrs. 
$40 ln/$55 Out ec 


Strong, Skillful, Secure 
Energizing Bodywork by Con¬ 
genial, Handsome, CMT. $45/ 
$60 in/out. Jim 752-8846 eo5 


★ Magical Mystery Massage ★ 
Sensual, Hot Oil, Swedish 
Beep (510) 741-0444 $45/$65 

E06 


COLONIC IRRIGATION 
Complete Colon Cleansing 
Professional Equipment 
Sterile Disposable Tubes 
Trained Therapist Who Is 
sensitive and thorough. 
(415) 241-0567 ★ Appoint¬ 
ment 

E06 


In Walnut Creek, Goodlooking, 
Friendly, Italian Guy 
with strong touch. Older, 
married, welcome. 9a.m.-9p.m. 
(510) 945-6351 E04 


Swedish/ 

Shiatsu 

Aromatherapy 

★ Sensitive 
★ Strong 
★ Experienced 


$35/HR-$45/1 ’4 HR. 

lOAM-IOPM 

MAX, CMT 
431-5758 


★ ★ $30 Erotic Massaged ★ 

★ ★ Bill 441-1054. Hot! ★ ★ E 12 

Be Stimulated By The 

RAGIN' CAJUN' 

Ex-Football Jock Gives 
The Massage of a Lifetime 
Butch 621-4316 24 Hrs. 

$40/$ 55 eos 


Nude mass by well built man. 
42 Dwntwn Mark 398-2441 24hr 

E10 


SENSUAL MASSAGE 
SENSUAL LATINO 

Bpr # (510) 308-6985 
Vidal Out Only 

E05 


DEEP TISSUE 

STRONG MUSCULAR 

BEAR 

SENSITIVE, SATISFYING 
HAVE TABLE WILL TRAVEL 
Out Only, Steve 255-1313 eos 


FAX 

THAT!! 

YOU CAN FAX US YOUR 
CLASSIFIED AD AT 

861-8144 

THE DEADLINE IS MONDAY 
AT NOON. THIS FAX LINE IS 
FOR B.A.R. ADVERTISERS 
ONLY AND MUST BE 
ACCOMPANIED WITH A 
VISA/MC «, SIGNATURE AND 
EXP. DATE. 


647*3068 

Swedish/Shiatsu 
Twin Peaks location 
445 ID *65 OUt 


Dann 

lOam-iOpm 
62 Parking 


Ruugged UC Stroke 861-0942 

E07 


Relax with a very smooth 
Masc. Asian. Bpr. 207-2333eos 


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E06 


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E05 


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EOS 

BUBBLE BUTT 

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560-2478 


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E05 

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E05 

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E05 

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E05 

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E05 

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E05 

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415 - 267-5988 


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cupid 621*5262 



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pager 415/954-3766 


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E05 


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E05 



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